{"id":32734,"date":"2023-06-17T04:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T04:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32734"},"modified":"2023-06-17T04:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T04:42:44","slug":"mali-urges-immediate-end-to-un-minusma-peacekeeping-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32734","title":{"rendered":"Mali urges immediate end to UN Minusma peacekeeping mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mali&#8217;s foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country &#8220;without delay&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdoulaye Diop accused the force, Minusma, of having &#8220;become a part of the problem in fuelling intercommunal tensions&#8221;. He was addressing the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minusma has more than 13,000 troops. Its decade-old mission has failed to stop the spread of jihadist violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Wagner mercenaries are now assisting Mali&#8217;s military rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western officials have accused Wagner of human rights abuses in Ukraine and parts of Africa, and last month the US announced <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy1502\">sanctions on Ivan Maslov<\/a>, whom it described as Wagner&#8217;s top official in Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wagner has not commented on the Western allegations and its activities in Mali and other parts of Africa remain shrouded in secrecy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Mali&#8217;s foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country &#8220;without delay&#8221;. Abdoulaye Diop accused the force, Minusma, of having &#8220;become a part of the problem in fuelling intercommunal tensions&#8221;. He was addressing the UN Security Council. Minusma has more than 13,000 troops. Its decade-old mission has failed to stop the spread of jihadist violence. Russian Wagner mercenaries are now assisting Mali&#8217;s military rulers. Western officials have accused Wagner of human rights abuses in Ukraine and parts of Africa, and last month the US announced sanctions on Ivan Maslov, whom it described&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32736,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32734\/revisions\/32736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}