UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council unanimously approved a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali on Thursday to help restore democracy and stabilize the northern half of the country, which was ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council will consider plans to deploy a new U.N. peacekeeping force to Mali to help pacify the northern part of the West African country following France’s ...

(Bloomberg) -- The remaining United Nations mission in Mali will start leaving on Friday to bring an end to the 11-year-old peacekeeping mission that helped the country fight militants seeking to ...

Declaring that peace efforts in Mali had faltered, the United States on Friday called on the UN Security Council to consider a possible major drawdown of the peacekeeping mission in the West African ...

Following a productive meeting on the margins of the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in December 2018, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Teodor-Viorel Meleșcanu, ...

BAMAKO/KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) - The U.N. is being dragged into a mission in Mali likely to involve state-building as much as peacekeeping, as France looks to reduce its military footprint in the vast ...

FILE - This undated photograph released in April 2022 by France's military shows Russian mercenaries boarding a helicopter in northern Mali. (French Army via AP, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali’s ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is looking to beef up its peacekeeping force in Mali, where implementation of a peace agreement between the government and rebels has dragged on and increasing ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers will start operations in Mali on July 1 after the U.N. Security Council gave the green light on Tuesday for the mission, which will be the world body's ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France has circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would authorize a U.N. peacekeeping force to stabilize key towns in northern Mali and help promote a return to democracy and ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Mali's armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries, committed abuses against civilians since the withdrawal of a U.N. peacekeeping mission late last year, Human Rights Watch said ...