The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously voted to end a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African country's military junta abruptly asked the 13,000-strong force to leave - a move the United States said was engineered by Russia's Wagner mercenary group.
U.N. peacekeepers are credited with playing a vital role in protecting civilians against an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands. Some experts fear the security situationwhen the mission departs, leaving Mali's underequipped army alone with about 1,000 Wagner fighters to combat militants who control swaths of territory in the desert north and center.
"What isn't as widely known is that Prigozhin helped engineer that departure to further Wagner's interests," White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters. "We know that senior Malian officials worked directly with Prigozhin employees to inform the U.N. secretary-general that Mali had revoked consent for the MINUSMA mission."Russia's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Anna Evstigneeva told the Security Council that Mali had made a "sovereign decision.
The Security Council resolution authorizes MINUSMA to - "within its immediate vicinity" - respond to imminent threats of violence to civilians and contribute to the safe, civilian-led delivery of humanitarian assistance until Sept. 30.
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