Location of Gao in Mali
The 4 January 2015 Asongo-Menaka Road bombing was an incident that occurred when six United Nations peacekeepers were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb planted by Ansar Dine during the Malian Civil War.
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Since 2012, France led a United Nations-backed intervention against al-Qaeda, Ansar Dine, and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) in northern Mali during the Malian Civil War, and UN peacekeepers struggled against an insurgent comeback. A vehicle carrying UN peacekeepers hit a roadside bomb between Asongo and Menaka, near the major Malian city of Gao, and six UN peacekeepers were wounded, three of them seriously.