(FILES) A foot soldier of the 2nd Mechanised Company of the Senegalese Battalion of the MINUSMA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali) patrols in the destroyed Fulani village of Sadia Peulh, on July 5, 2019. The UN mission in Mali officially ended ten years of years of deployment in the country on December 11, 2023, its spokesperson said.
The mission, known as MINUSMA, lowered the United Nations flag on its headquarters in the capital Bamako, its spokesperson Fatoumata Kaba told AFP. (Photo by Marco LONGARI / AFP)