Mali junta expels UN mission’s human rights chief


Malian soldiers patrol the streets of Bamako. The military junta has expelled the UN human rights chief as the former accuses the international body of cherry-picking who it recognises within the country. – EPA pic, February 6, 2023.

MALI’S ruling junta said yesterday that it was expelling the head of the human rights division of Minusma, the UN mission in the country, giving him 48 hours to leave its borders.

The decision comes after a Malian rights activist last month denounced the security situation in the country in a speech to a UN gathering, and accused the regime’s new Russian military partners of serious rights violations.


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