Five die in Mali, Burkina

Two soldiers in Mali and three civilians in Burkina Faso died in suspected jihadist attacks in the Sahel on Tuesday, a day after Islamist rebels killed scores of troops in Chad, security sources said.
The two soldiers were killed and three others were wounded by a bomb placed on a road between Baye and Pissa in the central region of Mopti, the Malian army said on social media Wednesday.
Mali has been struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that erupted in the north in 2012, and which has claimed thousands of military and civilian lives since.