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Bangladeshi UN soldiers with blue painted U.S. M1 helmets sit on top of Soviet-made armored vehicles and carry Chinese spiker Type 56 AKMs during a patrol in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, photo via AFP

In something rarely seen in recent years where nation building seems to never conclude, the UN Security Council has lifted remaining sanctions on the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) and will end the peacekeeping mission there.

Some 6,000 UN peacekeepers and international police will leave Ivory Coast by next April, and in June the UN mission will officially close after 12 years in the country.