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Learning from the withdrawals of UN peacekeeping missions in Mali and the DRC

The host countries of two of the United Nations’ flagship peacekeeping missions recently demanded their withdrawal. This development raises questions about whether such missions can still effectively prevent and manage conflicts. As part of a broader review, the UN is working to adapt its peacekeeping efforts to contemporary realities.

The Conversation

Human Rights Watch Report: Abuses By Mali's Armed Forces

Human Rights Watch report reveals abuses by Malian armed forces, Russian mercenaries, and jihadi groups in Mali post-UN peacekeeping mission.

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Rights group accuses Russian mercenaries of abuses against civilians in Mali

Human Rights Watch says Mali’s armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries, committed abuses against civilians since the withdrawal of a UN peacekeeping mission late last year

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More than 70 killed in Mali attack: What happened, why it matters

This is the first major attack on Bamako since 2015 when fighters targeted foreigners in a nightclub and hotel.

Al Jazeera

Mali’s spat with Kyiv: Is the Russia-Ukraine war spilling over into Africa?

Bamako has cut ties with Kyiv, accusing it of complicity in an attack that killed Malian soldiers and Wagner troops.

Al Jazeera

UN mission in Mali officially ends after 10 years

The UN mission in Mali officially ended a 10-year deployment in the country on Monday, its spokesperson said.

Radio France Internationale

UN peacekeeping mission in Mali officially ends after 10 years

In June, Mali’s military government, which seized power in 2020, demanded the departure of the decade-old mission.

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Mali junta has 'seized' rebel stronghold of Kidal

Mali's junta leader announced on Tuesday that the armed forces had recaptured the strategic northern town of Kidal, a stronghold of Tuareg-dominated separatist groups that has long posed a major sovereignty issue for the government.

Radio France Internationale

Mali junta upholds UN peacekeepers' departure, sends more troops north

While the UN voiced concern over an escalation of fighting in in Azawad in northern Mali, the Malian foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop said this weekend that the withdrawal of United Nations peacekeepers from the region would go ahead before 31 December.

Radio France Internationale

Latest attack by Tuareg rebels signals northern Mali is back at war

Tuareg rebels this week claimed to have captured a camp belonging to Mali's armed forces in the north of the country, where clashes have been escalating since August. As the Malian army sends a convoy to fight back the rebels, experts are warning of an all-out war.

Radio France Internationale

Mali’s junta struggles to fight growing violence in a northern region as UN peacekeepers withdraw

Mali’s military junta is struggling to fight growing violence in the West African nation's hard-hit northern region

The Independent UK

Mali peace deal under threat following increase in attacks by armed Tuareg groups

Armed groups from northern Mali on Tuesday claimed they captured the key town of Bourem, located between Gao and Timbuktu, before pulling out of the town, fuelling fears of the collapse of a peace deal between the ex-rebels and government forces.

Radio France Internationale

‘We need food and shelter’: farmers flee for their lives as terrorists attack villages in Mali

Civilians who have been displaced by raids want to return home but say there is no protection for them there

The Guardian - UK

The UN is undertaking an unprecedented 6-month withdrawal of nearly 13,000 peacekeepers from Mali

The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency

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Al Jazeera

UN forces in Mali speed up withdrawal as security deteriorates

UN’s impending pullout has fuelled tensions between Mali’s military gov’t and rebel Coordination of Azawad Movements.

The Independent UK

Malians who thrived with arrival of UN peacekeeping mission fear economic fallout from its departure

The pending pullout of U.N. peacekeepers from Mali is creating worries about what the withdrawal will mean for thousands of citizens who built livelihoods at and around the mission's bases

Al Jazeera

US sanctions Mali’s defence minister, officials over Wagner ties

US State Department accuses three Malian officials of facilitating the Russian mercenary group’s rise in the country.

Al Jazeera

Analysis: What’s next for Mali after MINUSMA withdrawal?

The UN peacekeeping mission is set to fully exit the West African country by December 31.

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Radio France Internationale

The UN votes for MINUSMA peacekeepers to leave Mali

The UN Security Council has voted not to maintain MINUSMA, the UN peacekeeping force in Mali, as the mission ends on this day.

France 24

UN Security Council votes to end peacekeeping mission in Mali

The United Nations has voted to end its decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali... The UN Security Council's decision comes two weeks after Mali's military leadership accused the 13-thousand strong Minusma force of failing to tackle a jihadist insurgency. In August last year, France withdrew its troops from Mali... that reopened…

The Independent UK

UN votes to immediately end its peacekeeping operation in Mali after a demand from military junta

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to immediately end its peacekeeping operation in Mali, a country grappling with an Islamic insurgency for over a decade

Radio France Internationale

'Yes' to junta's constitution in Mali opens way for 2024 elections

Malian voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the constitution in a referendum held on 18 June, but the low turnout and absence of participation of the Tuareg rebels in the north are among the many remaining challenges, along with major security issues.

Radio France Internationale

Security in West Africa at risk after Mali asks UN peace mission to leave, US says

The US State Department has said it "regrets" the Mali military regime's decision to call for the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping force from the West African country.

Al Jazeera

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

The West African nation’s military rulers criticised MINUSMA’s ‘failure’ to respond to security challenges.

Al Jazeera

One UN peacekeeper dead, four others injured in north Mali attack

More than 300 of the peacekeepers in MINUSMA have also been killed since the start of the Mali mission in 2013.

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