Ivory Coast will more than quadruple its troop presence in the United Nations�...
FILE PHOTO: Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara gives a speech during a summit on the crisis in Mali and Guinea Bissau, at the Fondation Felix Houphouet Boigny in Yamoussoukro February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon/File Photo
The batallion of 650 troops will join the 150 Ivorian soldiers deployed in Mali, where security has deteriorated sharply in recent years due to attacks by jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State as well as ethnic clashes. MINUSMA was set up in 2013 after an Islamist uprising in the north the year before. Amid continuing violence, it has become the U.N.’s deadliest mission, with nearly 200 members killed, mostly in combat.
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