Soldiers from many countries withdraw from Mali

Troops from Senegal, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Bangladesh - the largest contributors to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali - will withdraw from Mali in the coming time.

Soldiers from the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) patrol in Timbuktu, Mali, December 8, 2021. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

On August 2, the United Nations announced that more than 460 Egyptian soldiers participating in the decade-long UN peacekeeping mission in Mali have left the country.

Egypt's troop withdrawal from Mali is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

According to the United Nations announcement, troops from Senegal, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Bangladesh - the countries that contribute the most to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali - will also withdraw from the country in the coming time.

In November last year, Britain announced it was withdrawing 250 troops from the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali.

Earlier in August, France announced that its last troops in Mali had withdrawn after nearly 10 years of fighting against extremist Islamic rebels in the West African country.

Meanwhile, last May, Germany decided to delay by one year the withdrawal of troops participating in the United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali.

German troops have been present in Mali since 2013, supporting the country against jihadist groups that pose a growing threat in the Sahel region.

The presence of German troops is partly to compensate for a shortage of personnel after France begins withdrawing troops from early 2022.

In 2013, the United Nations deployed the Multinational Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), with 11,700 troops from 65 countries.

MINUSMA is considered the most dangerous mission the United Nations has ever participated in, with about 250 peacekeepers killed in the past 10 years./.

Duc Trung (Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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