Boost for Wagner as Mali shuns UN troops, but at what cost?

2023-07-01 00:15

As it pushes out 12,000 UN peacekeepers, Mali will be relying ever more heavily on Russian mercenaries.

The outcome of Friday's UN Security Council vote on the future of the peacekeeping force in Mali was never in doubt - they had little choice but to terminate what has been the most deadly of all such UN operations around the world.

Over its more than 10-year deployment, some 187 peacekeepers have...