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Five-year-old boy facing deportation from Deadly attacks increase Australia because of mild pressure on forces in Mali disability

A spokesman for the Islamic The latest attack State in the Greater Sahara, the • groups’s branch in the Sahel, was late on Saturday confirmed to AFP on Sunday that they had carried out the • Three different attack. groups attacked the ‘France remains our main Indelimane military enemy’ base simultaneously “We had learned that the Ma- lian army was working in the Neighbouring camps with apostates,” said ‘Ab- Tests revealed Bhuiyan had a mild cerebral palsy, likely caused by a stroke Burkina• Faso and doul Chiquiti’, the spokesman’s shortly before or after his birth. Niger have also been nom de guerre. the rejection through the ad- “We succeeded in wiping out The Guardian ministrative appeals tribunal. infiltrated by insurgents the camp,” he said, while add- Two-and-a-half years later, Mali’s army is suffering increasingly heavy losses from jihadist attacks ing: “France remains our main five-year-old boy born in the AAT upheld the refusal, AFP | Bamako enemy.” AAustralia is facing depor- noting it was “bound to ac - Mali’s president, Ibrahim tation to Bangladesh with his cept” the findings of Adyan’s ith more than 50 Ma- Boubacar Keita, has so far not family after their visa applica- medical assessments in 2016 lian soldiers killed made any public statement tions were refused because his and 2019. Wover the past two about the latest attacks. “mild disability” would be a The 2019 medical assess- days, the authorities seem pow- But these losses come a month burden on the medical system. ment found Adyan had a “mild erless to stop the growing toll after jihadist attacks on military Dr Mahedi Hasan Bhui - functional impairment” which from jihadist attacks, even with bases at Mondoro and Boulkessi yan arrived in Australia on a was likely permanent, and the support of an international near the southern border with student visa in 2011. He and would likely require communi- force in the region. Burkina Faso. Rebaka Sultana married the ty services “including but not Mali is one of the countries in The official toll from those next year in Bangladesh and limited to additional support the Sahel region of Africa that attacks was 40, but a number she joined him in Australia in at school”. has been caught in the eye of the of observers have argued that 2013. Later that year their son, “I do not have any idea why jihadist storm since 2012, along the real losses might have been Adyan, was born at a Geelong a kid having little weakness in with Niger, Burkina Faso, Niger higher. hospital. his left hand will need special and Chad. Following those attacks, the A few months after his birth, education,” Bhuiyan said. “As The latest attack was late on wives of soldiers staged several Bhuiyan and Sultana noticed far as I can understand, special Saturday, when a roadside bomb protests in the capital Bama- Adyan was struggling to lift education is required for those claimed the lives of two more ko and in the central town of up his head. Tests revealed he who are unable to attend in the Malian soldiers, wounding six Sevare. had a mild cerebral palsy, likely mainstream schools.” others, in the central region of Northern Mali fell into the caused by a stroke shortly be- A separate medical as - Mopti, the army said in a tweet. UN, African and French forces in the G5 Sahel region hands of jihadists in 2012 before fore or after his birth. sessment seen by Guardian That came just a day after the militants were forced out Bhuiyan, who has a Bangla- Australia says Adyan is inde- the devastating jihadist raid on A Malian army officer said from France’s 4,500-strong by a French-led military inter- deshi degree and a South Ko- pendently mobile and only a military base at Indelimane, that Friday’s surprise attack was Barkhane force, deployed in vention. rean masters, finished his PhD requires a support rail to nav- in the eastern Menaka region by gunmen riding motorbikes, the Sahel region of Africa since Neighbouring Burkina Faso in engineering at Deakin Uni- igate steps and uneven surfac- near the border with Niger, that the favoured means of transport 2014. and Niger have also been in - versity in 2016. He was granted es. It notes he is very vocal, killed 49 of their comrades. of the jihadist fighters in the The French soldier killed by filtrated by insurgents, at a Victorian state government enjoys playing with a soccer And a French soldier died in region. the roadside bomb attack Satur- the cost of hundreds of nomination for a permanent ball and has developed move- the same region Saturday after According to a UN report day belonged to that force. lives. skilled migration visa, which ments to adapt around his his armoured vehicle struck an on the attack, three different The Islamic State group The G5 Sahel, a five-nation would allow his family to build disabilities. improvised explosive device. groups attacked the Indelimane claimed both Friday’s attack joint taskforce set up in 2014 a life in Australia. It does not assess cognitive These were just the latest in military base simultaneously. on at Indelimane and the road- to tackle the jihadist threat, However, because of Adyan’s function, which the report rec- a string of attacks underscoring MINUSMA, the 13,000-strong side bomb that killed the French is also active in the region. It disability, it was rejected under ommended prior to starting the fragility of a region where UN peacekeeping mission in soldier in a statement Saturday comprises troops from Burkina Australia’s strict “one fails all school, and does recommend jihadist violence has claimed Mali, helped the army build the signed from its “West African Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger fail” visa health criteria. continued therapy support in hundreds of lives. base last year. So too did soldiers province”. and Chad. Bhuiyan’s family appealed Australia or Bangladesh. Imran Khan shares pictures of the Grand Kartarpur corridor

In 2018, India and Pakistan• had agreed to open the corridor

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mran Khan, Pakistan Prime IMinister yesterday shared several dazzling pictures of the Kartarpur complex and Gurd- wara Darbar Sahib ahead of the planned inauguration of the Kar- tarpur corridor on November 9. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Khan lauded the com- Kartarpur complex and Darbar Sahib ahead of the planned inauguration of the Kartarpur corridor pletion of work in record time and congratulated the Pakistani niversary celebrations of Guru lier abolished the condition of The massive Kartarpur Cor- al district of Pakistan’s had said that it will build the government for readying the Nanak Dev. passport for the coming to ridor will connect the Dera province. corridor from the Indian border Kartarpur Complex. The year 2019 marks the 550th Kartarpur and the service fee of Baba Nanak shrine in India’s In 2018, India and Pakistan had to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib In a another tweet, Khan birth anniversary year of Sikh- USD 20 dollars for those coming Punjab with Darbar Sahib at agreed to open the corridor on in Kartarpur, while the other said that the revered venue is ism founder Dev, for the inaugural ceremony and Kartarpur, which is just 4 kilo- the occasion of the 550th birth part from Dera Baba Nanak in now ready to welcome the Sikhs whose birthplace is Sri Nankana on the 550th birth anniversary of metres from the International anniversary of the first guru of Gurdaspur up to the border will pilgrims for the 550th birth an- Sahib in Pakistan. Khan had ear- the Sikh Guru on November 12. Border. It is located at Narow- Sikh, Guru Nanak Dev. Pakistan be constructed by India.