A contract employee of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was killed today, Sunday, August 21, during an attack on a convoy of the United Nations mission in the Bourem department of Gao state. The cowardly and the despicable”, which led to the killing of one of his employees, and the head of the MINUSMA extends his condolences to the family of the victim.