<span style="color: #222222;">In Mali, three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five were seriously injured on Tuesday when their convoy struck a roadside bomb. <br />''<br />''The UN mission in a tweet said, a MINUSMA Force convoy hit an Improvised Explosive Device in the central part of the country. The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, was created in 2013.<br />''<br />''An impoverished state lying in the heart of West Africa's Sahel, Mali, is struggling with an 11-year-old insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.<br />''<br />''With more than 13,500 military personnel and police, it is one of the biggest but also deadliest UN peacekeeping missions, suffering a high toll, especially to Improvised Explosive Devices.</span><br />