The United Nations Mission in Mali (Minusma) ceased to operate almost a year ago, on December 31, 2023. Since that date, Minusma no longer had a mandate and no longer carried out activities. However, some teams were still present in Mali for the process of “ liquidation of mission » devoted to the final logistical and administrative stages. This process was to end on December 31, 2024, it will finally be officially concluded a little in advance, this Friday the 15th.
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The Malian transitional authorities are today recovering the vast Minusma camp in Bamako, on the road to the airport. The last, after the handover of that of Gao in July. Minusma had left all the others from 2023.
These last months have been devoted to the transfer of equipment to contributing countries or to other UN missions around the world, as well as to the closing of contracts and financial accounts.
Minusma had more than 15,000 military and civilian personnel. Most non-Malians had already left the country last year. The entity in charge of liquidating the mission indicates to RFI that “ a few dozen » internationals are still at Mali and that they will have left the country gradually before the deadline of December 31.
With the end of this liquidation period, the page of Minusma is definitively turned. After ten years of presence, his departure was demanded by the Malian transitional authorities, who considered that the Blue Helmets were not sufficiently securing the country, and who also criticized the UN mission for its reports on restrictions on public freedoms or on the abuses of the Malian army and its “partners”namely the Wagner group. Work considered by Bamako as an exploitation of human rights.
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