Mali Army: The departure of UN troops will not be delayed, they will send troops to the north of Tessalit

Abdoulaye Diop, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, has said that the exercise to leave the peacekeeping troops of the United Nations in the north of Mali will take place on time as planned, ie by December 31, despite the concerns of the United Nations. The United Nations, for its part, has said that it is worried that the departure of its troops could be hampered by the escalation of fighting in the north of Mali where armed rival groups are doing everything they can to control the area. The United Nations has said that the military government of Mali has not yet given it permission to send its convoys to collect food and their tools in northern Mali. The departure of the UN peacekeeping force in Mali (MINUSMA) by the end of this year 2023 is part of the restructuring of the security plan initiated by the military administration of Mali that took power in 2020. The UN MINUSMA force When At the same time, Wagner group militants and Malian soldiers have started arriving in the north of Mali to take the place of the MINUSMA force ordered by the military administration of Mali to leave the country.

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