Amid ongoing insecurity in some regions of Mali, the UN Mission in the country, MINUSMA, maintains an effective presence protecting civilians and supporting implementation of a 2015 peace deal. 

That’s the message from El-Ghassim Wane, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Mali and Head of MINUSMA, who is in New York this week to address the Security Council. 

Ahead of the meeting, Mr. Wane sat down with UN News’s Dianne Penn, who began by asking him if there has been any progress on the political front since he last briefed the Council in April.