UN troops set to leave Mali, but how fast?
The peacekeeping operation, known as Minusma, was the most expensive mission on the UN's books, costing $1.2 billion per year, now appears set to wind down, plunging Mali -- a country struggling with jihadist attacks -- into the unknown.
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Ivorian soldiers carry coffins wrapped with United Nations flags out of a UN plane on February 22, 2021 at a military base in Abidjan, at the arrival of the bodies of four Ivorian peacekeepers /AFP
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With the imminent end of the UN's Mali peacekeeping mission seemingly no longer in doubt, negotiations at the UN are still foundering over the timetable for their departure, which Bamako