In May of 2013, the bodies of two
Tuareg men were found just outside of Gossi. Just hours earlier they were stripped naked and trampled on by soldiers, only to be released at the request of a soldier who was a relative. The Minister of Defence attributed the killings to the
Ganda Koy- a militia that works with the support of local authorities. On 24 July 2014, a
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft flying
Air Algérie Flight 5017
crashed southeast of Gossi with 116 people on board. The flight had left
Ouagadougou and was headed to
Algiers. Initial reports suggested a
sandstorm might have been to blame. Gossi was also the site of the capture of Mimi Ould Baba Ould El Mokhtar, believed to be responsible for
a terrorist attack in Grand-Bassam, by
French military forces. In March 2022, the French military released video evidence of Russian mercenaries burying about a dozen bodies of Malians near the Gossi military base. == References ==