With half the country not under government control, al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is increasingly targeting civilians.
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an armed group linked to al-Qaeda, claims responsibility for the attack.
Bamako has cut ties with Kyiv, accusing it of complicity in an attack that killed Malian soldiers and Wagner troops.
The attack on June 11 was one of the deadliest suffered by the West African nation’s army.
The UN official said he was ‘appalled’ by the killings in central Mali.
The army’s fight against rebels has been criticised as heavy-handed, with the HRW report being the latest criticism.
The UN helicopter accidentally landed in al-Shabab territory on Wednesday, with 6 of 9 passengers taken hostage.
Several passengers reportedly taken after helicopter lands in territory controlled by the armed group.
The embargo was placed on Somalia in 1992 to cut the flow of weapons to feuding warlords in the country.
Threat of attacks has receded, but experts believe a regeneration of hardline groups in the region is still possible.
All ‘five colleagues’ kidnapped 18 months ago are in good health, spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres says.
Kenya postpones reopening the border amid turbulent ties and al-Shabab attacks.
The move is the latest escalation in a crackdown on French-owned foreign media by the Burkinabe government.
More than 300 of the peacekeepers in MINUSMA have also been killed since the start of the Mali mission in 2013.
