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· Mali’s Interim Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, after telling Denmark to withdraw its forces from Mali’s soil, told foreign forces not to deploy their forces in its soil without its permission.
· Bamako on Monday asked Denmark to take home its contingent of hundreds who were recently deployed in the country
· The Denmark forces had come to take part in a French task force intended to accompany Malian soldiers against Jihadist groups. In a terse reaction, the Malian Prime Minister asked why foreign forces were coming to his country and he attributed motives for their deployment.
Mali’s Interim Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, after telling Denmark to withdraw its forces from Mali’s soil, told foreign forces not to deploy their forces in its soil without its permission.
Bamako on Monday asked Denmark to take home its contingent of hundreds who were recently deployed in the country. The Denmark forces had come to take part in a French task force intended to accompany Malian soldiers against Jihadist groups. In a terse reaction, the Malian Prime Minister asked why foreign forces were coming to his country and he attributed motives for their deployment. He alluded it could be even for preparing something against the government.
The French force, whose deployment was announced in April 2021, is stationed in Menaka in eastern Mali and is having a mandate to stay put there until early 2023. Mali attributed the coming of Danes was by proxy and not with the consent of the government.
The Prime minister further added that nobody should come to his country by proxy anymore. Only by entering into an understanding with the government, the foreign forces will be allowed into Mali, he insisted. The new contingent from Denmark was to join Task Force Takuba — a 900-troop French-led unit launched in March 2020. Other contributors to the task force are the Netherlands, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy and Hungary
