Reports say troop rotations by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali will resume on Monday, one month after Malian authorities suspended them and accused foreign soldiers of entering the country without permission.
Mali’s ruling junta suspended troop rotations for the nearly twelve thousand-strong mission on July fourteen after arresting forty nine soldiers from Cote d’Ivoire who it said had arrived in the country without permission however the country denied the allegation.
It said they would resume following discussions with representatives from the mission, known as MINUSMA, about how to coordinate troop deployments.
The July arrests highlighted friction between the junta, which seized power in an August 2020 coup, and international partners, who have criticised election delays and security cooperation with Russian mercenaries.
