Dakar: UN peacekeepers made an early withdrawal from their camp at Tessalit in northern Mali because their “lives were in danger”, the UN mission said yesterday.
Malian troops on Saturday took over the Tessalit camp, the army said, the first handover in the Kidal region where clashes with armed groups have flared recently.
The withdrawal of the UN stabilisation mission in Mali (Minusma) after 13 years has ignited fears that fighting will intensify between troops and armed factions for control of the territory.
The pullout was completed “in an extremely tense and degraded security context putting in danger the lives of personnel”, Minusma said. | AFP…
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