{"id":4594,"date":"2022-08-18T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2022-08-18T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:16:09","slug":"germans-spot-russian-forces-in-mali-after-french-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/08\/18\/news\/4594\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans spot \u2018Russian forces\u2019 in Mali after French exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4595\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/german-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, Mali, Dec. 4, 2021. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN, Broadcasting News Corporation : German soldiers in Mali spotted several dozen suspected Russian security forces in the city of Gao just as the last French soldiers left the country, the German government said Wednesday. The German ambassador in Bamako has contacted Mali\u2019s foreign minister about \u201cthe suspected presence of Russian uniformed forces in Gao,\u201d said a foreign ministry spokesman.<br \/>\nGao is home to a contingent of German soldiers, not far from the former base occupied by the French. A Russian presence in the city would be a development \u201cthat changes the mission environment,\u201d the spokesman said, adding that the government was also discussing the matter with the United Nations. France announced in February that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country\u2019s ruling junta. That ended a near 10-year deployment against extremist groups that pose a growing threat in West Africa. The arrival of Russian paramilitaries in the country on the invitation of the government was a key factor in France\u2019s decision to pull its military forces out. The last French soldiers left Mali on Monday. Germany\u2019s government was also aware of an aircraft being used by Malian armed forces that \u201ccould possibly be an aircraft that was handed over by Russia,\u201d said a defense ministry spokeswoman. \u201cWe have received information that about 20 to 30 persons who were not associated with the Malian armed forces were seen loading and unloading this aircraft in a hangar\u201d on Monday, the spokeswoman said. The government is \u201cintensively investigating\u201d these reports, which concern a \u201ctraining and ground combat aircraft of the L-39 type,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nGermany on Friday said it had stopped reconnaissance operations and helicopter transport flights in Mali until further notice after Bamako denied flyover rights to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA.<br \/>\nBut MINUSMA resumed contingent rotations from Monday under new approval procedures. MINUSMA \u2014 the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali \u2014 was launched in 2013 to help one of the world\u2019s poorest countries cope with a bloody extremist campaign. It is one of the UN\u2019s biggest peacekeeping operations, with 17,609 troops, police, civilians and volunteers deployed as of April, according to the mission\u2019s website. News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Broadcasting News Corporation : German soldiers in Mali spotted several dozen suspected Russian security forces in the city of Gao just as the last French soldiers left the country, the German government said Wednesday. The German ambassador in Bamako has contacted Mali\u2019s foreign minister about \u201cthe suspected presence of Russian uniformed forces in Gao,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}