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South Asia, Rwanda, Senegal, Egypt: what contribution to peacekeeping forces

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Rwandan soldiers from Minusca patrol in Bangui.

(Illustrative photo) AFP PHOTO / Pacome PABANDJI

By: Laure Broulard Follow |

Alexandre Buccianti |

Côme Bastin Follow |

Thea Olivier

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This week, the last French soldiers left Mali, where the Minusma mission continues all the same.

The opportunity to take stock in our

on international contributions to peacekeeping forces.

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- South Asia is a huge contributor to international peacekeeping forces, it is here that we find the first world contributors!

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, in New Delhi. 

- Rwanda is currently the fourth largest contributor of blue helmets in the world.

He intends to make his army a tool of international influence.

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in Kigali.

- On August 16, Senegal began the periodic rotation of its contingents engaged in Minusma in Mali, while it is the second largest contributor to this mission in terms of manpower after Chad.

The involvement of Senegalese troops in UN peacekeeping operations has become a political issue.

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in Dakar 

- Egypt suspended its participation in Minusma on August 15.

Six of its soldiers had been killed and 15 others injured in Mali since March.

The Egyptian contingent of Minusma consists of an armored battalion of nearly a thousand men.

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, in Cairo.

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