UN says China offers peacekeepers for Mali

Saudi Gazette - UNITED NATIONS - China has offered to contribute troops to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, where insurgents controlled the country’s north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a UN official said.

Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping department, told The Associated Press that it “has received pledges and offers of contributions from a number of countries from around the world, including China.”