The presence of Russian forces in Mali must not hinder U.N. peacekeepers nor provide cover for human rights breaches, Germany's chief of defence said, warning that any such developments could lead to an end of Berlin's engagement there.
Berlin has deployed some 1,000 troops to Mali, most of them near the northern town of Gao where their main task is to gather reconnaissance for the U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSMA that aims to stem violence from a decade-long Islamist insurgency.
