Mali had called for the immediate withdrawal of the mission. Bamako and the UN have agreed on a six-month deadline between 1 July and 31 December for the complete withdrawal of troops. This ...

Mali has told the UN that its 12,000 peacemakers need to leave, after 10 years countering Islamist militants in the country. Last year, France withdrew its forces after military leaders seized ...

Boost for Wagner as Mali shuns UN troops The army had already been targeted in Bamba earlier in September by al-Qaeda-linked jihadists. In a social media post, the military said the clashes in ...

The number of troops involved or details on the ... The junta, which has ruled Mali since 2020 has pushed the UN Security Council in June to withdraw MINUSMA by the end of the year.

The operation in Mali had been described as "the most dangerous peacekeeping mission in the world" and 288 UN soldiers have lost their lives there since 2013. While in the region, British troops ...

Britain has several hundred troops in MINUSMA ... that it would cut short its troop deployment with the UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali after relations with the country's Russian-backed junta ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Mali's troops and its foreign security partners, believed to be Russia's Wagner mercenaries, are using violence against women and other "grave human rights abuses ...

Independent U.N. sanctions monitors reported to the Security Council this month that Mali's troops and its foreign security partners, believed to be Russia's Wagner mercenary group, are using ...

Ivory Coast and the United Nations say the troops were flown in to provide routine backup security for the German contingent of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. An Ivorian delegation flew to ...

The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, also known as Minusma by its French acronym, will hand over its main camp in the capital, Bamako, to the country’s junta ...

triggered in part by the pullout of UN peacekeeping troops which helped in maintaining a fragile peace. The CMA was formed by seminomadic Tuareg people in Mali’s north, who have long complained ...