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Mali demands Denmark ‘immediately’ withdraw its special forces

File photo taken on August 20, 2021 of a soldier at the headquarters of the Takuba force in Gao, Mali. REUTERS - PAUL LORGERIE

Mali's military government on Monday called on Denmark to "immediately" withdraw its roughly 100 recently arrived special forces troops deployed in the troubled Sahel country.

The junta, which came to power in a coup in August 2020, said in a statement on state TV and published on social media that "this deployment was undertaken without consent".

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