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Mali's UN peacekeepers fear they are becoming 'an instrument of the junta'
The MINUSMA peacekeeping mission is struggling to carry out its duties on the ground. The work of the UN representative in Bamako is also internally criticized, with some seeing him as too conciliatory with the junta led by Colonel Assimi Goïta.
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Should United Nations peacekeepers stay in Mali, even if this means not being able to work, or leave the country, at the risk of abandoning civilians and leaving them exposed to jihadist groups? At the UN headquarters in New York, the question is being asked as discussions on the future of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) begin. The Security Council will have to decide in June whether to extend its presence in the Sahelian country.
MINUSMA was deployed in 2013 to restore state authority and protect civilians in the north of the country, but was rapidly criticized for its ineffectiveness.
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Researching, recording, and exposing grave human rights abuses committed by Zaire’s notorious dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, Guillaume Ngefa risked his life on a daily basis. As founder and president of his country’s premier human rights organization, L’Association Africaine de Défense des Droits de l’Homme (African Association for the Defense of Human Rights, or ASADHO), Ngefa monitored the bloody seizure of power by President Laurent Kabila in 1996–97 during which, Ngefa estimates, “200,000 refugees in Zaire, mostly ethnic Hutus, and thousands of Zairians were killed as a result of the deliberate strategy of extermination of a portion of the Rwandan population.” Ngefa based his report on field research, along with a synthesis of reports by a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations. Persecuted first by Mobutu and then by Kabila, Ngefa and ASADHO gained a reputation for even-handed and well-documented reports of abuses, regardless of the ethnic