The leader of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), Mohamed Ag Najim (R), leads his men in prayer outside Anefis, Mali, August 26, 2015. The United Nations has deployed 10,000 peacekeepers and poured more than $1 billion into Mali but its efforts to end a three-year conflict are threatened by the reemergence of a centuries-old rivalry between Tuareg clans. Picture taken August 26. To match Insight MALI-VIOLENCE/MILITIA REUTERS/Souleymane Ag Anara
GAO (Reuters) - The United Nations has deployed 10,000 peacekeepers and poured more than $1 billion (£650 million) into Mali but its efforts to end a three-year conflict are threatened by the reemergence of a centuries-old rivalry between Tuareg clans.
The U.N. Security Council renewed the mandate of its Mali force (MINUSMA) in June in the hope that it could enforce a peace deal signed that month in the West African nation, despite suffering the highest rate of losses of any active peacekeeping mission.
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