In Mali, six soldiers were killed and several were wounded in an overnight attack in the central part of the country. <br />'' <br />'' The Army said the troops came under fire late yesterday from unidentified armed men in Dioungani, an area in central Mali's volatile Mopti region near the border with Burkina Faso.<br />'' <br />'' Local authorities and inhabitants have blamed the attack on Jihadists. Mali has been struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that erupted in the north in 2012 and has claimed thousands of military and civilian lives since.<br />''