Three peacekeepers from Senegal were killed and five seriously injured after their convoy hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country and Senegal’s army said on Tuesday. Mali is struggling to stem an Islamist insurgency that took root after a 2012 coup and[Read More…]
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African Peacekeepers Quitting Mali
Peacekeepers from Cote d’Ivoire are among those quitting Mali just nine months into their role. In September 2021, at the United Nations, Mali’s Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, chided France for abandoning midair its campaign against the insurgency deploring the partial withdrawal of Barkhane force in his country, which has[Read More…]
Re: Claims Of President Barrow’s Humiliation In Mali Preposterous Political Propaganda
Press Release Ever since President Adama Barrow and a delegation of West African Statesmen returned from an ECOWAS Mediation Mission to Mali recently, erroneous claims emerged that the Gambian leader was terribly humiliated by his Malian colleague, interim President, Colonel Assimi Goïta. Contrary to this false claim trending across Social[Read More…]