The UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday he deeply regrets Mali’s recent decision to declare the top UN human rights representative as persona non grata.The transitional Government of Mali had made the announcement on Sunday, in effect…
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigerian authorities have vowed to provide justice after armed men in Burkina Faso attacked a group of Nigerian pilgrims on their way to Senegal, killing at least 16. Burkina Faso’s military government launched an investigation of Mond…
Zambia’s police force will get nearly $1 million to boost women’s participation in global peace operations, a UN Women-hosted trust fund announced on Tuesday.“My Command appreciates the recognition of female officers as a catalyst of systematic change …
France on Monday slammed the expulsion of the director of the human rights division of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). “France strongly condemns the decision taken by the Malian junta to demand the departure …
BAMAKO, Mali’s ruling junta said that it was expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the United Nations mission there, giving him 48 hours to leave the country.The decision comes after a Malian rights activist last month denounced t…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday called on Malian authorities to rescind their expulsion order for his top representative in the country.“I deeply regret the decision by the Malian authorities to declare my representative, Guillaume …
BAMAKO, MALI — The Malian interim government on Sunday said the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission’s human rights division had 48 hours to leave the country as he had been declared persona non grata. In a statement, it said the decision to expel Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali was connected to
GENEVAUN experts urged an immediate independent investigation Tuesday into gross human rights abuses and possible war crimes committed in Mali by government forces and the private military contractor known as the Wagner Group. The experts said that sin…
Stabilizing Mali is crucial, not only for the country but for the entire region, UN Special Representative El-Ghassim Wane told the Security Council on Friday. The envoy was addressing ambassadors at what he called a “unique juncture” in the efforts to…
Foreign Minister Calls for Respect for His Country’s Sovereignty, Points to Reduction in Human Rights Violations as State Presence ExpandsWeeks ahead of a referendum meant to move Mali closer to constitutional order, the senior United Nations official …
GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, warns the departure of European forces from Mali has created a dangerous vacuum in the country.The European forces completed their withdrawal from Mali in November, ending a 14-year effort to keep the country sa…
Five soldiers were killed and three wounded in a terror attack on a road security mission in northwestern Mali, the army has said.Terrorists attacked a security mission on the Kwala-Mourdiah road on the Gomitra-Kwala axis on Sunday morning, killing fiv…
YOKOHAMA – The United Nations World Food Programme has welcomed a contribution of around US$130 million from the Government of Japan to support vulnerable people in 37 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa amid the deepening global hunger c…
DAKAR, SENEGAL — Four gendarmes were killed, and three others injured Sunday after being ambushed in western Mali, a region prone to jihadi attacks, the paramilitary police said. Two police vehicles were torched and two others, equipped with machine guns, were captured by the assailants during the attack in Koula,
The work of the 16th session of the Algerian-Malian Joint Committee, responsible for monitoring Military and Technical cooperation, ended on Friday January 13, 2023 in the premises of the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs. It was co-chaired by t…