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Mali to suspend UN peacekeeping mission rotations

The decision comes four days after Mali arrested 49 Ivorian soldiers it later described as "mercenaries" intent on toppling the country's military-led government.

Why is Mali in the eye of a West African storm?

Mali was once the seat of a commercial and intellectual empire that controlled most of West Africa. But since 2012, a crisis in Mali has been brewing that features rebel forces, the French, Al Qaeda and the United Nations.

Attacks kill 5 soldiers and a civilian in Mali during key vote

Despite deadly attacks, the country successfully went ahead and held municipal elections, hoping to help secure a peace deal with armed groups.