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Mali expels U.N. mission's human rights chief

FILE PHOTO: A U.N. vehicle patrols the streets before the polls open for the presidential election in Bamako, Mali July, 29 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

The Malian interim government on Sunday said the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's human rights division had 48 hours to leave the country as he had been declared persona non grata.

In a statement, it said the decision to expel Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali was connected to his allegedly biased choice of civil society witnesses for U.N. Security Council briefings on Mali, the most recent of which was held on Jan. 27.

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