Ivorian Soldiers Arrested in Mali Were Part of UN Mission - Report: WestAfrica
The affair lasted six months, with the UN calling for the release of the 49 soldiers without clearly specifying their status.
According to several internal UN documents seen by RFI, it was indeed Minusma, more precisely, the German contingent of the UN mission, that brought in the Ivorians. The flights that allowed the Ivorian soldiers to carry out their rotations on 10 July were submitted to the Malian authorities as being for the transport of troops from the German contingent.
Since July 2019, when an agreement was signed between Côte d'Ivoire and the United Nations, seven Ivorian contingents had flown to Bamako and were considered as NSEs.It was also at the request of the German contingent that the predecessors of the 49 were decorated by the UN force commander himself on 10 June, just one month before the arrival of the soldiers who were to succeed them.
-which had specified that it was"mobilised" in the case of the Ivorian soldiers, without giving further details.Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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