Aboubacar shared tea and sugary treats with his colleagues gathered on a mat at a UN camp in fight-scarred Mali. He speaks plainly but with a trace of irony about his transformation from a tour guide of 14 decades expertise up until eventually 2014 into a frontline armed forces interpreter. Soon after the war upended his business, he sought out work as a translator for the British contingent of the UN’s mission in Mali MINUSMA. “Right before we were preserving the white holidaymakers, but now it is really the whites who guard us in the bush,” he explained with a smile. There are dozens of many others like him who…