Abdoulaye Diop, the foreign minister of Mali, asked for the UN peacekeeping mission to leave his nation immediately on Friday.
In a statement to the UN Security Council, Diop stated that Mali requested the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, or MINUSMA, to leave the country “without delay.”
The minister stated that Minusma “seems to have become part of the problem” by escalating local tensions and making grave accusations that are exceedingly harmful to Mali’s national unity, peace, and reconciliation.
MINUSMA and the Malian government are both experiencing a crisis of confidence as a result of the current scenario, Diop told the council.
Since 2012, the nation of West Africa has seen an uprising. Although the U.N. peacekeeping operation was deployed in 2013, the unrest still exists.
