German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht speaking to troops. Image: Alamy Stock Photo German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht speaking to troops. Image: Alamy Stock Photo GERMANY HAS ANNOUNCED that it has immediately suspended its involvement in the Mali MINUSMA United Nations mission in a dispute with the Malian Government.
The detachment of the Irish Army Ranger Wing is embedded with the German Bundeswehr military and are conducting special forces reconnaissance missions in the north of the country.A member of the Army Ranger Wing in Mali. Source: Irish Defence Forces “Again those in power in Mali have not allowed the UN MINUSMA mission access to its airspace. A planned rotation of personnel is therefore not possible. That has effects on our engagement, given that the security of our soldiers has the highest priority.
Irish troops were training local forces but Minister Simon Coveney, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence had previously said in the Dáil that Ireland was monitoring the deteriorating situation in the country. The UN mission MINUSMA was established in April 2013, following the country’s violent Tuareg rebellion in 2012.
A deal between different groups was eventually brokered in Burkina Faso, before the establishment of MINUSMA and the deployment of UN peacekeepers in July 2013.
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