{{Nigeria has prefered not to comment on the ongoing speculation that it is withdrawing its peacekeeping troops from Mali because it lost command of the Peacekeeping Forces to Rwanda.}}
Rwanda’s Gen Kazura Jean Bosco trounced other contenders to assume command of the new Peacekeeping force established in Mali.
Meanwhile Allasane Ouattara, President of Cote d’Ivoire, Authority of Heads of State and Government and Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) confirmed this move in Abuja where he refuted the speculations that Nigeria was withdrawing some of its troops because it had lost command of its peacekeeping forces to Rwanda.
Nigeria is now ready to remove some of its troops from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), a part of the group that were transformed from AFISMA.
President Ouattara confirmed the receipt of a letter from President Jonathan declaring that the reason for the withdrawal of the Nigerian troops from Mali was precipitated by a domestic need. According to the letter from President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria needs some of its people, and the country wasn’t withdrawing all its troops, just a small part.
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