Vol 61 No 7 | MALICOVID-19 Voters self-isolate 2nd April 2020 Malians voted with their feet, choosing to protect themselves from the Covid-19 virus rather than cast ballots in parliamentary elections on 29 March. The turnout fell to 5% in the...
Vol 61 No 4 | MALI Terrorists at the table 20th February 2020 President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta says his envoy Dioncounda Traoré had his full authority to initiate talks with jihadist chiefs Iyad ag Ghaly and Amadou Koufa – after years of gove...
Vol 61 No 3 | MALI Putschist walks free 6th February 2020 The leader of the 2012 failed military coup, and suspect in the torture and murder of multiple Red Beret paratroopers opposed to his putsch, Amadou Haya Sanogo, has been released ...
Vol 61 No 1 | MALI Advantage jihadists 9th January 2020 Domestic political jockeying and stop-start funding for peacekeeping leave Bamako a sitting target for the Islamist insurgents For President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta the new year brings renewed diplomatic pressure – and not just from an international community exasperated by the lack of progress in implement...
Vol 60 No 22 | MALISAHEL Islamic state onslaught 7th November 2019 The death of at least 49 Malian soldiers in an attack on their base at Indélimane on 1 November confirms the continued potency of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) ...
Vol 60 No 19 | MALI The talking cure 27th September 2019 The President wants a ‘national dialogue’ about the political and security crises but only on his terms Final preparations are under way for an 'Inclusive National Dialogue' widely seen as Mali's last hope for progress towards resolution of the seven-year-long political crisis. Some ...
Vol 60 No 13 | MALI Militia starts scare 28th June 2019 At first sight, it looked like ethnic cleansing by communiqué. The predominantly Dogon militia Dana Ambassagou, led by Youssouf Toloba, issued a statement on 17 June to the effect ...
Vol 60 No 8 | BURKINA FASOMALISAHEL Jihad's shifting fronts 19th April 2019 Increasing the resources available to anti-jihad forces is having little effect on the growth in attacks and militant cells Jihadism was concentrated in northern Mali at the time of the launch of Opération Serval, France's emergency military campaign to stop jihadist columns pushing south in 2013. Sinc...
Vol 60 No 2 | MALI A compromised regime 25th January 2019 After the president was re-elected, partly thanks to northern armed groups who brought in the vote, optimism is in short supply Mali ended 2018 better than many expected. On the national political front, the presidential election went smoothly and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was re-elected for a s...
Vol 59 No 24 | MALI Blow to jihadists 7th December 2018 Intelligence analysts believe Malian jihadists suffered a serious setback when French troops of Opération Barkhane killed Amadou Koufa, the militia leader. Koufa, who was am...
