Before Military Intervention by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319984377
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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UN Security Council Resolution 2085 passed unanimously on 20 December 2012 and authorised the creation of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA). AFISMA was to be an African security force that would work alongside the Malian army to secure Northern Mali. For months prior to the intervention, France pursued diplomacy and supported the use of African forces as a means to resolve the crisis in Mali. This was both a political manoeuver and an economic choice. AFISMA would permit France to operate behind the scenes of an African-led force and diffuse the cost of an intervention among European UN members and the United States. Unfortunately, diplomacy was not effective in mobilising the forces needed at the outset of the Malian crisis. AFISMA was too slow to come to fruition and rebel advances on Konna Mali triggered Operation Serval on 11 January 2013. President Hollande announced the objectives of Operation Serval on the day the mission was launched. These incuded:1.Stop the terrorist aggression

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