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Britain to join UN's mission in Mali in effort to quell violence
Deployment of 250 troops in one of most dangerous regions in the world is planned for 2020Two hundred and fifty highly trained British ground troops scheduled to be deployed in a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali in 2020 may not yet know exactly where they are heading or what precisely they will be doing, but they do know it will be risky.Mali is the most dangerous country in the world for UN peacekeepers: so far 123 have died and 358 have been severely wounded, although no soldier from a western country has yet been killed in the ongoing counter-insurgency operations. Continue reading...
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