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Mali asks UN to withdraw its peacekeeping mission ‘without delay’

Mali has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping mission 'without delay', denouncing its 'failure' to respond to security challenges [Handout/File: MINUSMA/Sylvain Liechti via Reuters]

Mali has called on the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges.

Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who is part of Mali’s interim military authorities, told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that the peacekeeping force known as MINUSMA should withdraw its troops from the West African nation.

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