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Session de formation en Droit International Pénal organisée par la Fondation Friedrich Naumann pour la liberté en partenariat avec la MINUSMA. Bamako, du 23 au 28 Février 2015 à l’Ecole de Maintien de la Paix de Bamako.
Training Session on International Criminal Law organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in partnership with the MINUSMA. Bamako from 23 to 28 February 2015 at the School of Peacekeeping Bamako.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Une équipe conduit par des de chargés des Droits de l’homme avec la participation des Affaires Civils et la Protection des civils se rend à Anderamboukane lors d’une mission d’établissement des faits sur les incidents du 26 et 27 avril 2018 dans les campements d’Aklaz et d’Awakassa dans la région de Menaka. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
The helicopter arrives in Koulogon Peulh.
On 21 and 22 February, an Integrated Team serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) travelled to the Mopti region in Mali to investigate recent armed attacks in the Bankass Cercle area, in which preliminary information indicated that at least 18 people were killed by shooting and burning. A large number of houses and granaries were deliberately burnt down as well and some animals were stolen or killed. The team, composed by Human Rights Officers and a forensic team of the United Nation Police (UNPOL), visited the settlements of Koulogon Peulh, Minima Maoude, a village that was entirely burn down, and Libe Peulh. They were escorted by Peacekeepers from the Bangladeshi Contingent serving with MINUSMA. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
Secretary-General António Guterres (centre), Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga (centre left), Prime Minister of the Republic of Mali and Henrietta H. Fore (right), Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), pay their respect during one minute of silence as they attend the wreath-laying ceremony to honor peacekeepers killed in the line of duty while serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The ceremony took place at a MINUSMA Operational Base in Bamako.
Bamako, le 22 janvier 2015, Séances de sensibilisation et d’information à l’endroit du corps professoral et des élèves des lycées de Bamako sur le mandat de la MINUSMA et le rôle des casques bleus au Mali.
Bamako, January 22, 2015, awareness and information sessions at high schools students on the mandate of the MINUSMA and the role of peacekeepers in Mali.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Bamako, 4 Novembre 2013 : La cérémonie d'adieux en l'honneur des 2 militaires tchadiens décédés le 23 octobre lors de l'attaque terroriste de Tessalit et du militaire nigérien décédé le 25 octobre a eu lieu ce matin à l'école de police de Bamako.
Bamako, 4 November 2013 - Benin UN Peacekeepers stand at attention during the ceremony for the three MINUSMA peacekeepers who died last week. Two soldiers from Chad were killed during a suicide attack in Tessalit while one soldier from Niger died in Gao due to health issues. Cérémonie en hommage aux 2 soldats tchadiens et au sergent nigérien. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
Cérémonie d’inauguration des ponts de Songho et de Yawakanda reconstruits par la MINUSMA. Ces infrastructures d’une importance capitale sur la Route nationale 15 (RN15) avaient été sabotées en août 2021 par des groupes armés terroristes, isolant ainsi les communautés et entravant la circulation des personnes et des biens. Ces travaux ont été menés à bien grâce à une contribution au Fonds fiduciaire pour la paix et la sécurité au Mali de la Suède et du Danemark d’un montant de près de 339 millions de Francs CFA.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Secretary-General António Guterres attends a meeting with leaders from Koro, Djenne and Douentza, religious leaders and Civil Society Organization representatives at the MINUSMA Super Camp in Mopti, Mali.
Secretary-General António Guterres (not seen) attends a meeting with leaders from Koro, Djenne and Douentza, religious leaders and Civil Society Organization representatives at the MINUSMA Super Camp in Mopti, Mali.
It’s Thursday morning in Konna, and crowds have descended from all over the region to join one of the largest open-air port markets, right in the center of Mali. We are in the region of Mopti. Shoppers navigate through the noisy improvised street filled with goods and merchants, their flip flops slap the dusty ground, as they move between the stalls offering fish, cattle, cereals, dried onions, yams, dates, meat, tea, wood, fruits and vegetables.
“Business is good nowadays, we are coming here to sell every Thursday, With no fear any more. I am happy to see the peacekeepers and our Malian Security Forces here. It reassures me, and I feel protected from the road cutters”, says Djeneba Kassogue, a seller of fruits and cold drinks from Mopti.
She remembers how she braved the 65 kilometers road leading to Konna three years ago, in permanent fear to be robbed. Since the market is now secured and fully functioning, this seller of fruits and cold drinks is now able to support her family of three children.
The market of Konna re-opened in late 2013 following violence that forced civilians to flee, devastating the local economy. Since then, regular joint foot patrols and market walks are provided by United Nations Police (UNPOL) and Malian Security Forces which help build confidence among local community and contribute to durable peace in the area that is better known as the new epicenter of Mali’s six-year conflict.
"In order to prevent attacks on fairgrounds and build confidence among the local community we carry out regular coordinated patrols to deter criminals. It brings a sense of hope to the people." explains UNPOL Patrol Commander Beman Sanogo. “We have a number of coordinated patrols with the Malian Police. We have coordinated points where we meet, and we go on the patrol together.”
Foot patrols in the market bears fruits
Wearing their uniforms, distinctive from the crowd, the 12 officers from the Togolese Formed Police Unit (FPU) step into the busy market. At a strategic location, the market brings dynamism to the commercial activities of the Mopti Cercle. It also brings together itinerant traders and local people from neighboring villages near the Niger river.
“Patrols are conducted to reassure the population, to help them overcome the feeling of insecurity. At the beginning of the crisis, people did not dare to go out because they feared armed groups and of attacks”, Berman Sanogo said.
The unprecedented scale of violence that started in 2012 led to widespread displacement and recurrence of human rights violations against civilians living in this area. Once peaceful, known as the Venice of Mali for its abundant access to water. The violence started when separatist Tuareg rebels seized large parts of the north of Mali, following a military coup in the capital, Bamako, forcing thousands to flee.
The upsurge of inter-community conflicts between the Fulani herders and the Dogon and Bambara farmers, and intra-community conflicts among the Fulani, combined with the attacks by violent extremist groups all contributed to deepen the instability.
More than 1,500 violent incidents caused the death 1,323 civilians killed and injured 611 just in Central Mali.
But on this Thursday, the market appeared calm and peaceful, with merchants happy to see the joint patrol on the ground “It's very good, it allows us to work freely”, said Abbas Diallo, standing outside a small grocery store, “I think it's reassuring for the population. I want it to last”, he added.
Patrolling night and day to protect civilians
The gradual improvement in security since the arrival of the peacekeepers has seen the local economy slowly begin to pick up in the remote town of 36,000 people in the center of Mali.
MINUSMA’s measures to help reduce casualties countrywide seem to be bearing fruits, “By increasing training, by increasing patrols with an average of 50 per day, by taking advantage of the joint patrols every single day 24/7 in all weather conditions, we have made significant progress towards diminishing casualties”, said Issoufou Yacouba, the United Nations Police Commissioner in Mali.
Not too long ago, tourists from around the world were visiting this part of Mali, sailing north, up the River Niger to the fabled city of Mopti. Today the area is known as the new epicenter of Mali’s six-year conflict.
Nevertheless, despite of extremely difficult operating conditions and logistic challenges, the UN police remains committed to help protect civilians and build durable peace to this land-locked north-west African nation.
Photo: MINUSMA/Gema Cortes
Gao, 26 février 2014 - La vie quotidienne dans le camp des Casques Bleus Hollandais en construction à Gao.
Daily life at the under construction camp of the UN Peacekeepers from Netherlands in Gao. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
Cérémonie d’inauguration des ponts de Songho et de Yawakanda reconstruits par la MINUSMA. Ces infrastructures d’une importance capitale sur la Route nationale 15 (RN15) avaient été sabotées en août 2021 par des groupes armés terroristes, isolant ainsi les communautés et entravant la circulation des personnes et des biens. Ces travaux ont été menés à bien grâce à une contribution au Fonds fiduciaire pour la paix et la sécurité au Mali de la Suède et du Danemark d’un montant de près de 339 millions de Francs CFA.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Un Casque bleu du contingent bangladais de la MINUSMA lors de la cérémonie d’inauguration des ponts de Songho et de Yawakanda reconstruits par la MINUSMA. Ces infrastructures d’une importance capitale sur la Route nationale 15 (RN15) avaient été sabotées en août 2021 par des groupes armés terroristes, isolant ainsi les communautés et entravant la circulation des personnes et des biens. Ces travaux ont été menés à bien grâce à une contribution au Fonds fiduciaire pour la paix et la sécurité au Mali de la Suède et du Danemark d’un montant de près de 339 millions de Francs CFA.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Centre de Santé de Reference de la Commune V, formation des personnels de santé et pénitenciers de la maison Centrale d’Arrêt de Bamako sur la maladie à virus d’Ebola. Bamako, le 04 Décembre 2014
Reference Health Center of the Commune V, training of health personnel and inmates of the Central Stop House of Bamako about the Ebola virus disease. Bamako, December 4, 2014
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Secretary-General António Guterres attends a meeting with leaders from Koro, Djenne and Douentza, religious leaders and Civil Society Organization representatives at the MINUSMA Super Camp in Mopti, Mali.
Une délégation formée par des Officiers des Droits de l’homme rencontre des témoins accompagnés par un leader communautaire lors d’une mission d’enquête sur les incidents du 26 et 27 avril 2018 dans les campements d’Aklaz et d’Awakassa dans la région de Menaka. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
In Gao, women from 76 women's associations belonging to different ethnic groups and communities established 'Case de la Paix' to help bring about peace and social cohesion. With support from the UN peace operation in Mali, MINUSMA, and UN Women, Case de la Paix has become a recognized platform for women to contribute to peace, regardless of ethnic background. Case de la Paix demanded that armed groups implement a local ceasefire and raised awareness of Mali's Law 052 stipulating that 30 per cent of those holding elected or appointed government roles must be women. This outreach led to an increase in the number of women elected to Gao’s local councils.
Credit: UN/MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
A girl looks over as members of the UNPOL forensic team speak to children in Koulogon Peulh.
On 21 and 22 February, an Integrated Team serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) travelled to the Mopti region in Mali to investigate recent armed attacks in the Bankass Cercle area, in which preliminary information indicated that at least 18 people were killed by shooting and burning. A large number of houses and granaries were deliberately burnt down as well and some animals were stolen or killed. The team, composed by Human Rights Officers and a forensic team of the United Nation Police (UNPOL), visited the settlements of Koulogon Peulh, Minima Maoude, a village that was entirely burn down, and Libe Peulh. They were escorted by Peacekeepers from the Bangladeshi Contingent serving with MINUSMA. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
Une colonne des véhicules blindés de transport de troupes (APC) se suivent sur piste bouilleuse et font route vers Ogossagou pour assurer la rotation de ses effectifs de la base opérationnelle temporaire.
Photo : MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Vue aérienne de la ville de Gao, la Force de réaction rapide (QRF) jordanienne de la MINUSMA est composée d'une compagnie d'opérations spéciales pour sécuriser le personnel civil de la MINUSMA sur le terrain des opérations afin de fournir une assistance à la population civile dans les zones éloignées et difficiles d'accès en raison de la situation sécuritaire au Mali.
Photo : MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
The shadow of the UN helicopter carrying MINUSMA Force Commander Lieutenant General Dennis Gyllensporre as it lands in Aguelhok, northern Mali.
The Force Commander visited Aguelhok to assess the situation and show support to the Chadian peacekeepers following the attack against MINUSMA camp in Aguelhok. The same day, the delegation traveled to Kidal city, visiting the wounded soldiers at the Togolese UN hospital.
UN Photo/Marco Dormino
22 January 2019
Tessalit, Mali
Photo # 795519
Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding support, meet with the beneficiaries of UNWOMEN and UNFPA project supporting victims of sexual and gender-based violence at the Maison des femmes in Gao. MINUSMA/Photo Marco Dormino
The Peace Through Adult Literacy programme, run by the Association for Literacy in Songhai and Tamasheq (AALST), has been organizing classes in French, Songhai and Tamasheq in Gao, Mali. Currently more than one hundred adult men and women benefit from these courses.
The centre operates with the support of the academy and its partners, with three classrooms constructed and equipped by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), with the aim to bring about a change in the local population’s perception of the Mission’s mandate.
UN Photo/Harandane Dicko
12 May 2017
Gao, Mali
Photo # 722532
Truck drivers install a steel rod to pull a stranded vehicle during a logistic convoy from Gao to Kidal, the 17th of February 2017 © MINUSMA/Sylvain Liechti
Each month MINUSMA MOVCON organise massive logistic convoys involving up to hundred civilian and military vehicles to supply remote UN bases in northern Mali.The roads are the most dangerous in the country due to frequent encounter with mines and IED.
Guinea is one of the major troop contributors to the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The peacekeepers are based in Kidal, Northern Mali. They help to secure the Mission's camp as well as to improve the security of the civilian population, including by conducting landmine and improvised explosive device searches. Here, a peacekeeper drives a forklift on the UN base.
Credit: UN Photo/Harandane Dicko
Date: 24 October 2018
Peacekeepers from the Bangladeshi Contingent serving with MINUSMA are ready to transport members to the Integrated Team in Koulogon Peulh.
On 21 and 22 February, an Integrated Team serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) travelled to the Mopti region in Mali to investigate recent armed attacks in the Bankass Cercle area, in which preliminary information indicated that at least 18 people were killed by shooting and burning. A large number of houses and granaries were deliberately burnt down as well and some animals were stolen or killed. The team, composed by Human Rights Officers and a forensic team of the United Nation Police (UNPOL), visited the settlements of Koulogon Peulh, Minima Maoude, a village that was entirely burn down, and Libe Peulh. They were escorted by Peacekeepers from the Bangladeshi Contingent serving with MINUSMA. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
La Force de réaction rapide (QRF) jordanienne de la MINUSMA est composée d'une compagnie d'opérations spéciales pour sécuriser le personnel civil de la MINUSMA sur le terrain des opérations afin de fournir une assistance à la population civile dans les zones éloignées et difficiles d'accès en raison de la situation sécuritaire au Mali.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Bamako, 25 septembre 2014 - Présentation de la MINUSMA et de son mandat auprès des media et des artistes au Palais de la Culture Amadou Hampaté BA pendant le Festival Tamani lors de les célébrations pour la Journée Internationale de la Paix 2014.
Introduction of MINUSMA and its mandate to the press and artists at the Culture Palace Amadou Hampaté BA during the Tamani Festival for the International Peace Day celebrations. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
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Timmermans spoort Mali aan tot voortvarende aanpak vredesproces
Nieuwsbericht | 07-07-2014
'Nederland investeert fors in Mali om het land te stabiliseren. Maar Malinezen moeten zelf ook in de toekomst van hun eigen land investeren. Ze moeten serieus werk maken van een inclusief onderhandelingsproces en van hervormingen van leger, politie en justitie.' Dat is de boodschap die minister Timmermans (Buitenlandse Zaken) maandag heeft overgebracht tijdens een bezoek aan Mali.
Nederland is al jaren een belangrijke partner voor Mali. Voorheen ging het vooral om ontwikkelingshulp, maar de relatie met Mali is uitgebreider en meer geïntegreerd geworden, onder meer door de bijdrage aan MINUSMA. 'We helpen graag, maar dat kan natuurlijk niet oneindig. Mali is aan zet om het vredesproces op gang te brengen', zegt Timmermans.
Het is niet alleen voor Mali van belang dat er meer stabiliteit komt, maar ook voor de omliggende regio en voor Europa. 'Internationaal terrorisme en criminele netwerken trekken zich niets aan van grenzen. Delen van de Sahel zijn een broedplaats geworden voor extremisme, een vrijplaats voor het opleiden van terroristen en een kruispunt van smokkelroutes. Daar moeten we iets tegen doen, ook voor onze eigen veiligheid', vindt Timmermans.
De minister bezocht maandagochtend het Nederlandse contingent van de VN-missie in Camp Castor in het noordelijk gelegen Gao. Nederland draagt met zo'n 450 mensen bij aan MINUSMA. De militairen richten zich vooral op het verzamelen van inlichtingen en het verwerken en analyseren daarvan voor de VN-missie. 'Onze mannen en vrouwen zijn hier hard aan het werk om de ogen en oren te zijn voor de missie. Daarmee leveren ze een concrete bijdrage aan meer stabiliteit in Mali en de regio', aldus Timmermans.
In de Malinese hoofdstad Bamako sprak Timmermans met zijn ambtgenoot Abdoulaye Diop over de veiligheidssituatie in het land en over het vredesproces. Diop sprak zijn waardering uit voor de Nederlandse bijdrage aan de MINUSMA missie om het land in rustiger vaarwater te krijgen. Ook de VN is vol lof over de Nederlandse inzet, zo bleek uit een gesprek met Bert Koenders, hoofd van de VN-missie.
Na het bezoek aan Mali reist Timmermans door naar Senegal. Daar spreekt hij onder meer met de president en de minister van Justitie. Dit bezoek staat in het teken van veiligheid in en rond de Sahel en de veranderende relatie met Afrika.
As part of civil-military activities (CIMIC), Bangladeshi peacekeepers are travelling to remote parts in Northern Mali to provide free medical assistance to isolated communities. In Battal, a small village near Gao, living conditions are harsh with few essential services. The peacekeepers provided medical services to 182 people during the day-long medical campaign. Photo: MINUSMA/Gema Cortes
Des membres du contingent FPU togolais de la MINUSMA dans un véhicule blindé lors de une patrouille quotidienne dans les rues de Menaka, dans le nord du Mali. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
Members of the Integrated Team interview civilians who fled their village Minima Maoude after the attack. Their village was entirely burnt down.
On 21 and 22 February, an Integrated Team serving with the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) travelled to the Mopti region in Mali to investigate recent armed attacks in the Bankass Cercle area, in which preliminary information indicated that at least 18 people were killed by shooting and burning. A large number of houses and granaries were deliberately burnt down as well and some animals were stolen or killed. The team, composed by Human Rights Officers and a forensic team of the United Nation Police (UNPOL), visited the settlements of Koulogon Peulh, Minima Maoude, a village that was entirely burn down, and Libe Peulh. They were escorted by Peacekeepers from the Bangladeshi Contingent serving with MINUSMA. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
Un camion de transport de matériels embourbé sur la piste bouilleuse menant à Ogossagou lors du déploiement du convoi composé des Casques bleus sénégalais de la Force d'Intervention Rapide (QRF) au sein de la MINUSMA pour assurer la rotation de ses effectifs de la base opérationnelle temporaire.
Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) speaks during the wreath-laying ceremony to honor peacekeepers killed in the line of duty while serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The ceremony took place at a MINUSMA Operational Base in Bamako.
Bamako, 26 septembre 2014 - Les hélicoptères Chinook du contingent hollandais de la MINUSMA partent pour Gao.
Chinook transport helicopters from the Dutch contingent serving with MINUSMA depart to Gao. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
« Unis dans l’action pour la paix et le développement au Mali », c’est le thème retenu cette année pour célébrer la Journée des Nations unies. L’exposition d’œuvres d’art tenue le jeudi 27 octobre à la résidence officielle du Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général de l’ONU au Mali n’est pas un hasard. À travers cet événement, El-Ghassim WANE a voulu mettre en vitrine le génie créateur malien dont la force de l’imagination est capable d’enfanter une nation unie et résiliente. Des membres du gouvernement malien, les représentants spéciaux du Secrétaire général de l’ONU en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, les Chefs des Agences, Programmes et Fonds onusiens opérant au Mali, des responsables d’organisations professionnelles nationales étaient présents à cet événement.
Photo : MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko