The German government is recommitting to the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali and raised its maximum contingent of participating soldiers from 1,100 to 1,400. “We are flying the flag for the security of the people in Mali,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told lawmakers in parliament, which must give its approval to the proposed extension. She said the deployment would help to prevent the creation of safe havens for terrorists and organized crime in the Sahel, a vast region that stretches from Africa’s Atlantic coast to the Red Sea. The Cabinet also agreed on its position regarding an EU m…