{"id":21965,"date":"2015-12-19T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-replaces-mali-peacekeeping-chief\/"},"modified":"2015-12-19T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:09:01","slug":"un-replaces-mali-peacekeeping-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-replaces-mali-peacekeeping-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"UN replaces Mali peacekeeping chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Bamako – The United Nations peacekeeping chief in Mali is to be replaced after just one year in the role, diplomatic sources said on Friday, amid criticism of the country’s peace process.}<\/p>\n

Former Chadian foreign minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif takes over from Tunisian Mongi Hamdi in January, a source in the incumbent’s office told AFP.<\/p>\n

Hamdi, a former foreign minister in Tunisia who took up the peacekeeping role in January, is expected to return to a government position in his own country.<\/p>\n

“We are aware. Hamdi is going and Mahamat Saleh Annadif is coming,” an official in Mali’s foreign ministry said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Under Hamdi’s watch, Mali concluded a landmark peace agreement between the government and a Tuareg-led rebellion which has launched several uprisings since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

But jihadist violence has intensified on the ground and the management of the transition to peace has been criticised by the international community.<\/p>\n

“What is clear is that Hamdi didn’t get a grip of the management of the Malian crisis,” a diplomat in Bamako said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

With more than 1 100 troops and police, the Chadian contingent is the third-largest contributor to the 10 300-strong Minusma peacekeeping force, behind Burkina Faso and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Deployed since July 2013, the mission has been the UN’s most costly in human life since Somalia from 1993 to 1995.<\/p>\n

Annadif was head of the African Union mission in that country from November 2012 until June last year.<\/p>\n

Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda seized the towns and cities of Mali’s desert north in 2012 with the help of Tuareg rebels in the wake of a military coup.<\/p>\n

The jihadists quickly sidelined their Tuareg allies, but were themselves ousted by a French-led military intervention launched in January 2013.<\/p>\n

Democracy was restored following elections in the summer of that year but large swathes of the northern desert remain beyond the control of Malian security forces and their foreign allies.<\/p>\n

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