The UN’s Special Representative for Mali, who heads the MINUSMA peacekeeping force, warned that the “window of opportunity” for peace in Mali may close, given the resumption of terrorist activities in the north, and MINUSMA’s low level of force generation and lack of military transport helicopters. A security source said that the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, which recently claimed the killing of a French hostage, is returning to the Gao region.
