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Spotlight | Mali, Onu
Future of MINUSMA hangs in the balance

The head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), El Ghassim Wane, in Bamako, on October 2021. © Nicolas Réméné/Le Pictorium/MaxPPP

With several contingents pulling out of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, its commander El Ghassim Wane has been on a round-the-world trip to discuss its future. He is to deliver a report in the coming days that for the first time should raise the possibility of ending the nearly decade-long mission. [...]

Published on 09.12.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes Paul Deutschmann, Fatoumata Diallo

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