Chad’s soldiers sent to Mali for peacekeeping operation return home
Chad’s transitional leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno welcomed Thursday November 30 home the country’s contingent that operated in Mali under the UN peacekeeping Mission known […]
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UN peacekeepers evacuate strategic northern Mali camp amid rising insecurity
UN soldiers have reportedly left a strategic camp in Mali’s volatile north, which has been wracked by escalating jihadist and separatist violence. “We left Kidal […]
Mali force pullout ‘recipe for disaster’ as ISIL doubled territory it controls, US/UN warn
The armed group ISIL (ISIS) has almost doubled its territory in Mali in less than a year, UN experts have said in a new report, […]
ECOWAS Summit: Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu elected President opposes military coups
The 63rd session of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) came to a close late on […]
Mali: Landmine injures two UN peace keepers
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) announced Tuesday two of its military personnel were wounded in the explosion of a landmine […]
Macky Sall mediates between Bamako and Abidjan
He spent a few hours in Bamako before flying in the afternoon to N’Djamena: Macky Sall, President of Senegal and current President of the African […]
UN Mission spokesperson expelled from Mali
The Malian authorities ordered on Wednesday 20 July the expulsion of the spokesman of the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma), blaming him for “unacceptable information” […]
Egypt to suspend its participation in UNMIS
Egypt will temporarily suspend the participation of its soldiers in the UN Mission in Mali (UNMIS) from 15 August for an indefinite period, after several […]
The Ivorian state demands the release “without delay” of its soldiers arrested in Mali
Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday asked Mali to release “without delay” its 49 soldiers who were “unjustly” arrested on Sunday at Bamako airport and accused by […]
Mali: Bamako says the 50 Ivorian soldiers held at airport are “mercenaries’’
Some 50 Ivorian soldiers who arrived at Bamako airport on Sunday on a special flight were still being “held for verification” on Monday, a Malian […]