The inspector general of Germany’s Bundeswehr has warned that the nation’s largest foreign deployment – in the West African country of Mali – is growing increasingly dangerous in military and political terms. “We have a government there that we regard as not democratically legitimate. The fact that it does not want to hold elections for another five years is an intolerable state of affairs for us. There can be no ‘business as usual,'” general Eberhard Zorn told dpa. Around 1,400 Bundeswehr soldiers are currently in Mali as part of the European Union’s training mission, EUTM, and the UN peaceke…

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