The UN Security Council withdrew the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) on Friday, handing security over to Mali’s transitional government. According to the passed ...

“It is important to note that the situation in Mali is no different from that of other UN peacekeeping operations: countries join them, others sometimes leave them too. No country stays indefinitely ...

Mali has reopened its airspace, which it had kept closed for some time, for flights of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the mission said Thursday ...

The Malian Armed Forces (also known by the French acronym FAMa) denounced Minusma’s charge as a “disinformation” operation, arguing that they “could not be responsible for such an abjection.” However, ...

Pressured by the Malian military junta, the UN Security Council has decided to withdraw all MINUSMA peacekeepers by the end of this year. What are the consequences? Last week, the UN Security Council ...

Djiby Sow Senior Researcher, ISS Regional Office for West Africa and the Sahel Fahiraman Rodrigue Koné Project Manager, Sahel, ISS Regional Office for West Africa and the Sahel Hassane Koné Senior ...

Previously, we published articles on the management of contingent-owned equipment and asset disposal by MINUSMA as it implements its withdrawal from Mali based on UN rules and procedures. This time, ...

Mali's foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country "without delay". Abdoulaye Diop accused the force, Minusma, of having "become a part of the problem in ...

Major General Bettina Patricia Boughani joined the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in January 2021. Leading a police component (UNPOL) of 1,920 ...

Alastair Leithead: "The UN is being sucked into the kind of conflict that claimed so many British and American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan" Suspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a hotel in Mali's ...

Pressured by the Malian military junta, the UN Security Council has decided to withdraw all MINUSMA peacekeepers by the end of this year. What are the consequences? Last week, the UN Security Council ...