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Mali: French ambassador ordered by authorities to leave the country within 72 hours

The French ambassador, Joël Meyer, has 72 hours to leave Mali. The government’s statement was just read on ORTM, the national television station: “This decision follows the hostile and outrageous remarks” made “recently” by Jean-Yves Le Drian and the “recurrence of such remarks by the French authorities with regard to the Malian authorities, despite the […]