Ivory Coast will gradually withdraw its troops and police from a U.N. peacekeeping force in neighbouring Mali, according to a letter seen by Reuters, dealing the latest blow to a mission that saw several Western nations pull out this year.
of being mercenaries. Ivory Coast says they were part of a security and logistics unit working under the peacekeeping mission and has made repeated pleas for their release.
The U.N. Secretary General is to present a report by the end of the year on the future of the mission, which has been significantly constrained by Mali's junta since it came to power in a 2020 coup. France pulled its troops out of Mali in August, ending a 10-year mission, after a protracted row about air space, troop movements and Mali's decision to ally with Russian mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, hundreds of whom are now working alongside Mali's army.
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