Under pressure from Mali junta, UN ends peacekeeping mission

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 01, 2023 2:27 pm

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Friday ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali, whose military junta has aligned with Russia and demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling jihadists.

Bowing to the principle that peacekeepers need the consent of the host government, the Security Council voted unanimously to start immediately winding down the mission despite fears by Western powers of new instability in the troubled African nation.

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