Germany will withdraw its troops from the UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali by May 2024, a government spokesman said Tuesday, becoming the latest country to announce its pullout from the jihadist-hit country.
The government will propose to parliament that Germany's commitment to the MINUSMA operation be extended "in May 2023 for the last time by a year, in order to bring this mission to a structured end after 10 years," spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement.
But they faced increasing difficulties in recent months, repeatedly having to suspend reconnaissance patrols after being denied flyover rights by the ruling junta. Lambrecht cited flyover rights and the involvement of Wagner as two reasons for the withdrawal, but said it would be "irresponsible" to abandon the region.
France this year withdrew its troops from the former French colony, deployed separately under its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel. The force had helped provide air support for MINUSMA. Lambrecht, who belongs to Scholz's Social Democrats, and the military had been pushing for a withdrawal for months, arguing Mali's military rulers were stopping Berlin's troops from carrying out their mission, Der Spiegel reported.
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