Adviser to interior minister gives warning after Amnesty accused Russia of war crimes in country’s second largest city
and the west are aggravating talks about the future of one of the United Nations’ biggest and most perilous peacekeeping operations aimed at helping Mali resist a decade-long Islamic extremist insurgency.
“The international context has a role, and Mali is part of the Russian game on the international stage,” she said. Mali asked France, its former colonial ruler, for military help in 2013. The French military was credited with helping to push insurgents out of Timbuktu and other northern centres, but they regrouped elsewhere and began attacking the Malian army and its allies.
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