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United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
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<p>The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali was a <a href="/facts/United_Nations/fgXLnmgT">United Nations</a> peacekeeping mission in <a href="/facts/Mali/sAaVqV1e">Mali</a>. MINUSMA was established on 25 April 2013 by <a href="/facts/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2100/Po7Kg80C">United Nations Security Council Resolution 2100</a> to stabilise the country after the <a href="/facts/Tuareg_rebellion_(2012)/hhDtz9DM">Tuareg rebellion of 2012</a>, and was terminated over a decade later on 30 June 2023. Officially deployed on 1 July 2013, MINUSMA was the UN's deadliest peacekeeping mission. While UNIFIL, the mission in Lebanon, has lost more peacekeepers overall, by incident type the majority of those deaths at 135 are officially listed as "accidents." At 175 deaths by "malicious act," MINUSMA was officially the deadliest Peacekeeping mission of all time. </p><p>During MINUSMA's existence, there were two further international peace operations in Mali. These were the <a href="/facts/European_Union/6GYcR8qM">European Union</a> missions <a href="/facts/EUCAP_Sahel_Mali/xElGWnxX">EUCAP Sahel Mali</a> and <a href="/facts/EUTM_Mali/IKq5R1w6">EUTM Mali</a>. </p>