31 May 2022 - Mboahangy “Fana” Rakotoarisoa is a Strategic Planning Officer in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) corrections component, a role that requires the highest level of qualification and entails great responsibility and regular interaction with senior national authorities.
26 May 2022 - Today’s world has changed and is unfortunately not at ease.Conflicts disturb and destroy people’s lives.Innocent civilians even have become a target.Threats are getting more complex.Violent extremist groups use harassing tactics.Improvised explosive devices are an invisible enemy.Today’s peacekeeper is in the middle of all of this,Both civilian and military.
24 May 2022 - NEW YORK, 24 May (Department of Peace Operations) — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will award the “Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage” to the late Captain Abdelrazakh Hamit Bahar of Chad during the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers commemorations in New York on Thursday, 26 May.
07 Apr 2022 - Bamako, 7 April 2022 - MINUSMA reiterates its deep concern at the allegations of serious violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law during an anti-terrorist operation conducted from 27 to 31 March by the Malian Armed Forces in the village of Moura, Djenné Circle, in the centre of the country. In this regard, it notes the decision of the Malian authorities to open an investigation to establish the facts.
20 Jan 2022 - Bamako, 20 January 2022 - Following a series of fruitful discussions with the Malian authorities, MINUSMA is resuming its air operations. The Mission welcomes the spirit of cooperation and partnership that prevailed during these talks.
08 Dec 2021 - The Secretary-General strongly condemns today’s attack against a logistics convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in the region of Bandiagara, in central Mali, during which seven Togolese peacekeepers lost their lives and three were seriously injured by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
08 Dec 2021 - Bamako, 8 December 2021 - This morning, a MINUSMA logistics convoy hit an Improvised Explosive Device between Douentza and Sévaré on the Nationale Road 16, in Bandiagara region. Seven peacekeepers were killed, and three others seriously injured.
08 Dec 2021 - Bamako, 7 December 2021 - A MINUSMA Peacekeeper succumbed to his injuries on Monday 6 December in Dakar, Senegal. The soldier has been seriously injured on 22 November when the vehicle in which he was travelling from Tessalit to Kidal hit an Improvised Explosive Device about 11km from the MINUSMA camp in Tessalit. He was then evacuated to Dakar with two other Peacekeepers to receive appropriate treatment.
07 Dec 2021 - The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack perpetrated near Songho, Bandiagara region, in Central Mali on 3 December 2021, in which more than thirty civilians, including women and children, were killed and others injured. They expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims and to the Transitional Government of Mali.