- In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts discuss the mission’s challenges and scenarios for what could come next.
What is new with the UN mission in Mali?
The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), deployed in 2013 to help stabilise the country in the wake of an insurgency led by jihadist and separatist groups, appears to be in trouble.
On 11 November, Côte d’Ivoire informed the UN that it will start withdrawing its 900 soldiers from the mission. Three days later, the UK announced that its…