Mali junta upholds UN peacekeepers' departure, sends more troops north

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While the UN voiced concern over an escalation of fighting in in Azawad in northern Mali, the Malian foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop said this weekend that the withdrawal of United Nations peacekeepers from the region would go ahead before 31 December. "Heightened tensions and the increasingly hostile presence of armed groups in northern Mali are likely to impede the departure of the UN Stabilisation Mission there (MINUSMA)," the UN wrote in a note to correspondents issued on Saturday.Since late
 
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