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2020-02-04 Africa Subsaharan
More soldiers won't help Mali, talks with jihadists might: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations’ top humanitarian official in Mali urged more engagement with armed groups including jihadists, and more aid and development funding, saying on Monday that extra troops would not help to stabilize the country.
"More aid and funding...which we'll administer for you, of course. With our usual cut"
Islamist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate across northern and central Mali despite constant efforts to drive them back. More than 200,000 people are displaced and many communities have no local government or means of defense.

The former colonial power, France, on Sunday pledged another 600 soldiers to the 4,500 it has tackling armed groups in the Sahel or with a 14,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in the region.

Ute Kollies, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Mali, told journalists in Geneva that the country was at a watershed, and complained of a lack of international support.

The funds received by OCHA in Mali last year amounted to just 5% percent of the $3 billion spent by armies there.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-04 03:44|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top

#1 "Africa solutions for Africa problems."
~ Barlow
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-04 06:57||   2020-02-04 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow - talk about burying the lede:

The funds received by OCHA in Mali last year amounted to just 5% percent of the $3 billion spent by armies there

Whose "armies"? Why so coy? Could those armies, possibly, be headed by the same bandits kleptocratic butchers who are pocketing a big chunk of the $3 billion?
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 07:06||   2020-02-04 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing comes of Dhimmitude. Just ask the humans in Minneapolis.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-02-04 08:05||   2020-02-04 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 I have some special operators and a couple ranger batts that disagree with ya.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-04 09:21||   2020-02-04 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 But maybe better soldiers can turn the trick.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-04 10:04||   2020-02-04 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Stinking piles of excrement are wise to avoid... like San Francisco.
Posted by Spot 2020-02-04 10:27||   2020-02-04 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Surrender and cash, that's so UN.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-04 10:42||   2020-02-04 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ don't forget the child comfort-girls. That has to be part of the deal for the UN Piece Peacekeepers
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 10:44||   2020-02-04 10:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Pederasty and the flesh trade is the connection.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-04 11:33||   2020-02-04 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 More soldiers won't help mali but Drones might.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-04 12:21||   2020-02-04 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 'talks' with jihadists accomplishes nothing. at best they agree to a cease-fire 'hudna' where everyone but the jihadists stand down.

talking with moslems is worthless.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-02-04 14:51||   2020-02-04 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Negotiations require honesty and good will. Two prerequisites that have not been met. Better and more productive to play solitaire and obliterate your enemies.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-04 20:10||   2020-02-04 20:10|| Front Page Top

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