Vol 54 No 11 | MALI Please give strategically 24th May 2013 Pledges at the Brussels donor conference exceeded expectations The conference hosted in Brussels by the European Union on 15 May was seen as a political and financial success. One hundred countries sent delegations and those from Mauritania an...
Vol 54 No 10 | MALI The rush to the vote 10th May 2013 Political and logistical obstacles mean that elections scheduled for July could cause more problems than they solve Partisan politics is back as the Bamako establishment focuses on the presidential election promised for 7 July. The transitional government of President Dioncounda Traoré, encourag...
Vol 54 No 10 | MALI EU brings budget support 10th May 2013 A meeting with financial institutions, regional neighbours and external partners in Brussels, Belgium, on 15 May is the next main focus for the accelerating international drive to ...
Vol 54 No 8 | MALIFRANCE The campaign stretches out 12th April 2013 France commits to a long war just three months after launching its biggest military operation in Africa in 50 years The official version is that France’s Mali operation has achieved all its objectives – the expulsion of jihadist forces from main northern towns and the destruction of several base...
Vol 54 No 8 | MALIFRANCE Training regime 12th April 2013 As the military operation in Mali continues, fresh complications arise. Early reports from the European trainers suggest that progress in restoring the discipline and effectiveness...
Vol 54 No 4 | MALI Crisis in the command 15th February 2013 Secret deals between army putschists and the jihadists threaten the military campaign as Bamako politicians demand retribution The strange pact under which President Dioncounda Traoré appointed the serial putschist Captain Amadou Sanogo as head of the military reform committee in a grand ceremony in Bamako...
Vol 54 No 4 | MALI Rocky road in the north 15th February 2013 The war against the jihadists is winding into the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains on the Malian-Algerian border. Last week, French and Chadian forces retook Tessalit, some 90 kilometre...
Vol 54 No 4 | MALISUDAN Jihadists from Mali in Darfur 15th February 2013 The arrival of the latest batch of foreign fighters complicates Khartoum’s tactical options The Khartoum regime’s ties with Islamists in the region are under scrutiny again following the arrival in Darfur of jihadists retreating from the French military campaign in northe...
Vol 54 No 3 | MALI The end of the beginning 1st February 2013 Bamako and its allies may only be able to defeat the jihadists in the long run if they make concessions to the people of the north The political questions facing Mali are more formidable than the diplomatic and logistical challenges facing France when it intervened on 11 January. After jihadists fled from Gao ...
Vol 54 No 3 | MALI Alghabass ag Intallah changes sides 1st February 2013 Last June, as jihadists consolidated their grip on northern Mali, Alghabass ag Intallah joined Ansar Eddine, to the surprise of many in the region. His father, Intallah ag Attaher,...
