Cambodia dispatches troops to Mali for UN peacekeeping mission
Cambodia on Thursday began to send its first batch of 309 troops to join a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the conflict-torn West African nation of Mali.
“This is the first time that Cambodia sends peacekeepers to Mali. Up to 309 troops are in the 1st batch,” Prak Sokhonn, Chairman of the National Coordination Committee of UN Peacekeeping Operation, said at the sending-off ceremony at the capital’s Military Airbase. …
Mali was plunged into turmoil after a March 2012 coup that led to a rebel takeover of large swathes of the West African country. France launched a military operation in January last year to oust them.
Besides Mali, Cambodian peacekeepers have been performing their humanitarian duties in South Sudan and Lebanon.
Authint Mail News Staff
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