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((Short description|Attack on Bundeswehr troops in Mali by Islamists))
((more citations needed|date=February 2022))

The '''attack in Tarkint''' occurred on June 25, 2021, in the village of [[Tarkint]], [[Mali]]. It was the worst attack on German troops to date in Mali, injuring twelve soldiers from the [[Bundeswehr]] mission MINUSMA and one Belgian MINUSMA soldier, three seriously. The UN mission had initially spoken of 15 injured.

== Background ==
The [[United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali|UN MINUSMA]] mission, which has been running in Mali since 2013, has intervened in the [[Mali War]] in an attempt to push Islamist militias out of the country. Germany is one of the countries that chose (including [[France]]) to join the mission.

At the time of the attack, the Bundeswehr had around 1,000 soldiers stationed in Mali. Most of them served in MINUSMA and some in the European training mission [[European Union Training Mission in Mali|EUTM]]. Since an effective containment of the terrorist threat had not succeeded by this time, the French President [[Emmanuel Macron]] announced in 2021 the largest foreign troops in the region, the [[French Armed Forces|French armed forces]] among others in the [[Operation Barkhane|Opération Barkhane]] in Mali and the security strategy for the whole Rethink the Sahel region.<ref>((Cite news|date=2021-06-10|title=Ende der »Operation Barkhane«: Macron will französischen Militäreinsatz in der Sahelzone ablösen|language=de|work=Der Spiegel|url=https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/mali-emmanuel-macron-will-franzoesischen-militaereinsatz-in-der-sahelzone-abloesen-a-5052ba22-6794-4dcc-a46e-dfa8b1883bfb|access-date=2021-12-24|issn=2195-1349))</ref>

Despite the increasing risk in the deployment area, the [[Bundestag]] extended German participation in both MINUSMA missions to the end of May 2022 in a resolution in 2021. In the leadership of the Bundeswehr, the mission in Mali is rated as the most dangerous German mission abroad. Mali was politically unstable again in 2021 after two military coups, and the question arose whether the involvement of the Bundeswehr had also helped the coup leader [[Assimi Goïta|Assimi Goita]] with training aids. Following language training in 2008, among other things, he took part in a course for company commanders in Germany.

== Incident ==
A UN force MINUSMA patrol in Mali was in the north of the country in [[Gao Region|Gao region]]. The mixed reconnaissance company of the German contingent, which also includes Irish and Belgian soldiers, was on a reconnaissance mission.<ref name=":0">((Cite web|title=Angriff auf deutsche Patrouille in Mali: Explosion 20 Meter vor dem Tanklaster – Augen geradeaus!|url=https://augengeradeaus.net/2021/06/angriff-auf-deutsche-patroulle-in-mali-explosion-20-meter-vor-dem-tanklaster/|access-date=2021-12-25|website=augengeradeaus.net))</ref> The attack happened near the community of Tarkint, about 180 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Gao.

At 8:28&nbsp;a.m. local time on June 25, 2021, a suicide bomber in a pickup broke through the outer ring of a wagon castle built with the help of armored vehicles and detonated an explosive device. An [[tank truck]] was placed in this inner ring, which was parked 20 meters from the than exploded pickup.<ref name=":0" /> The tank truck didn't explod. Twelve German soldiers and one Belgian soldier from the MINUSMA mission were wounded as a result of the detonation. According to German Defense Minister [[Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer]], three of the injured were seriously wounded. The rescue chain was then triggered and the international forces involved in the mission were flown out by helicopter. The seriously injured were transported to neighboring Niger.

Six wounded soldiers were flown from Gao to [[Cologne]] on June 26, 2021, in an air force [[Airbus A400M Atlas|Airbus A400M]] equipped with intensive care equipment (StratAirMedEvac) for further medical treatment and transferred from there to the German Armed Forces Central Hospital in Koblenz. A second plane flew over [[Niamey]], [[Niger]], another six injured soldiers to Stuttgart. From there they were transferred to the Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm. Operations took place in both hospitals immediately upon arrival.<ref>((Cite web|title=Nach Anschlag: Sechs verwundete Soldaten wieder Zuhause|url=https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/organisation/sanitaetsdienst/aktuelles-im-sanitaetsdienst/nach-anschlag-sechs-verwundete-soldaten-wieder-zu-hause-5103660|access-date=2021-12-24|website=www.bundeswehr.de|language=de))</ref>

== References ==
((Reflist))

[[Category:Bundeswehr]]
[[Category:Military operations of the Mali War]]
[[Category:Mali and the United Nations]]
[[Category:Germany–Mali relations]]
[[Category:2021 in Mali]]
[[Category:United Nations operations in Africa]]
[[Category:Gao Region in the Mali War]]

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