TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Daphné BENOIT and Amaury HAUCHARD
(FILES) Policemen of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), patrol in front on the Great Mosque in Timbuktu, on December 8, 2021. 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 FLORENT VERGNES / AFP)