BGS has a similar geopolitical risk as its project locates in Mali.
Two French soldiers killed by explosive device in Mali
© Pascal Guyot, AFP | File photo taken on March 10, 2016 of French soldiers on an Operation Barkhane patrol in Timbamogoye.
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Two French soldiers were killed after their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosive device in Mali, the French president's office said on Wednesday.
"It is with great sorrow that the President of the Republic learned of the death in combat of two soldiers from first regiment of Valencia, killed this morning in
Mali in an improvised explosive device attack on their armoured vehicle,” said a statement released by the Élysée presidential office.
France has deployed around 4,000 French troops in the West Africa's
Sahel region as part of Operation Barkhane aimed at tackling Islamist militants in the region.
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