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The key detention of a prisoner within the Comoros

Inssa Mohameddit Bobocha is particularly accused of attempting to assassinate President Azali Assoumani on April 21, 2020. After escaping from the Moroni prison last November, he went to Madagascar, where he found asylum. However, the prisoner was extradited from Madagascar to the Comoros on January 27, 2021, and no one has seen him since. The United Nations seized him from the Comorian authorities.…

Mauritanian El-Ghassim Wane, new envoy

El-Ghassim Wane was appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday. He will replace Chadian Mahamat Saleh Annadif at the head of Minusma, this important UN peacekeeping force that has nearly 14,500 men in Mali. A lawyer by training, El-Ghassim Wane studied in Senegal and France before rising through the ranks of…

The tip of Malia’s mission for the UN diplomat

Completion of mission for an essential character from Bamako. After five years in Mali, Chadian Mahamat Saleh is leaving Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Mali. At the end of one last field visit he has just made in northern Mali, our correspondent went to Mali to meet him to take stock of his mission.…

“delays” and “irregularities” in the process

That was four years ago; on March 12, 2017, in the Democratic Republic of the Conto (DRC) Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, two UN experts investigating the violence in Kasai-Central, were assassinated. A few months later, a lawsuit was opened to determine the causes and those responsible for these killings, but since then the procedure has progressed in slow motion and is spiced with irregularities,…

the presence of peacekeeping forces is reassuring

In northern Mali, among the Minusma contingents most exposed to terrorist acts, there is Chad, based in Aguelhoc, in the Kidal region. A dangerous area that the UN peacekeeping forces are determined to secure. With our special correspondent in Aguelhoc, Serge DanielA convoy of armored vehicles, driven and secured by Chadian…

in Timbuktu, Minusma uses more and more

Due to the security crisis, unemployment is falling in central and northern Mali. Today in northern Mali, the UN Mission in Mali is the largest provider of jobs. And in Timbuktu, for example, where 600 Malays are employed in Minusma, there are more and more women. With our special correspondent in Timbuktu, Serge DanielIn…

Mopti civil society expresses its concerns

Mahamat Saleh Annadif, representative of the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma), met on Tuesday in Mopti (center) with representatives of civil society from the region. If for them there are efforts to make societies exist peacefully, their concerns are many. With our special correspondent in Mopti, Serge DanielDuring the meeting…

a UN running crew requires the unencumber of Brice Laccruche Alihanga

A year ago, Brice Laccruche Alihanga, former chief of staff of President Ali Bongo, was arrested and then jailed in Libreville Central Prison for embezzlement of public funds and money laundering. With him also fell more than a dozen former ministers, deputies and other senior officials. Seized by Laccruche Alihanga's lawyer, the UN working group against arbitrary detention calls for the release of him…

Mankeur Ndaye: “The conditions are met to go to the polls” within the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic is on the verge of the date of the combined legislative and presidential elections. The situation is still unstable in the country. Fighting was reported on Friday, December 25, at several locations in the country, and three Burundian peacekeepers were killed. The Coalition of Armed Groups CPC seems determined to disrupt the election. Despite this uncertainty and the doubts it raises in the vote, Minusca is still firmly opposed to postponing the election. Mankeur Ndaye, number 1 on the UN…

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