UN soldiers Tuesday evacuated a camp in the strategic town of Kidal in Mali’s volatile north, which has been wracked by jihadist and separatist violence, several sources in the peacekeeping mission told AFP. “We left Kidal this morning,” a source in the UN peacekeeping mission based in the town said, adding that the convoy of […]
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UN peacekeepers, ordered to leave Mali by the country's leaders, have been forced to rush their withdrawal, destroy equipment left behind and risk their lives on the road out.
The Malian military rulers have ordered the United Nations (UN) peacekeepers out of the country, proclaiming the "failure" of their mission and denouncing its alleged "instrumentalisation" of the human rights issue. The order brought to an end 10 years of efforts to try to stabilise the country plagued by jihadism and a range of other crises.