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EGMONT POLICY BRIEF 338 - Procurement by Proxy: How Sahelian Juntas acquire Equipment from Ousted Security Partners

22 Mar 2024

After making the decision This article starts out by analysing and contextualizing to oust the missions, the juntas have also mounted the demands for departures by the juntas, before new obstacles for the missions and their departures, exploring the actual departures by MINUSMA and either taking, or forcing the missions to leave a large EUCAP Sahel Niger. [...] Convoys to neighbouring Chad operational environment after Barkhane left as the junta and to the ports in Cotonou were organized and by the prohibited the latter from continuing to provide certain end of December the last French troops left the country logistical support to the UN mission after its departure. [...] According to persons involved in the process, many in the Malian Only weeks after the Malian transitional government’s transitional authorities had initially overlooked the decision to expel the UN Mission in the country was liquidation process, having expected to be able to inherit announced, contests for territorial control and control most of the Mission’s weapons and equipment. [...] Instead, the junta decided to transitional authorities put forward requests that the UN make the remaining months of the EU mission’s stay more should refurbish the airstrip and roads in Mopti for being difficult by denying entrance in the country for individual used extensively by the mission, resulting in the mission staff and, importantly, the Head of the Mission. [...] In addition to inheriting the infrastructure, such as Only two days later, the junta denied the Head of the airfield installations and equipment, buildings and Mission re-entrance in the country, forcing her to leave bridges constructed by the UN, the Malian junta also with the same plane in which she arrived.
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