Publication

This report highlights the disproportionate dangers African soldiers have faced while serving in the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Indeed, MINUSMA currently qualifies as the deadliest UN mission ever undertaken. (Of the 109 personnel that have been killed thus far, 91 of them have been Africans.) The hugely disproportionate death rates, according to the report’s authors, are attributable to 1) the permanent deployment of African troops in Mali’s most dangerous areas; 2) the inferior equipment at their disposal; and 3) the poor support they have received from their own governments before, during and after their deployments.