By Morten Bøås/NUPI. This article was first published in Norwegian by Forsvarets Forum, 25 March 2020. As UN peacekeeping faces a major budget crisis, fewer countries may be willing to send soldiers abroad. This will have implications for the...
Mali opposition leader Soumaila Cissé kidnapped while campaigning
Al Jazeera reports that the opposition leader was kidnapped while campaigning in Niafunke, central Mali, probably by an armed group that belongs to the Islamist insurgency Katiba Macina. This is yet another rejoinder of how much the situation in...