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UN mission ends decade of deployment in Mali

Policemen of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) patrol in front of the Great Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, December 8, 2021. [AFP]

The U.N. mission in Mali ended a decade of deployment in the crisis-wracked country on Sunday, meeting a December 31 deadline agreed after Mali's military leaders ordered it to leave.

The U.N. stabilization mission (MINUSMA) had been in place since 2013, and its withdrawal is igniting fears that fighting will intensify between troops and armed factions.

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