Vol 54 No 2 | MALI Taking the fight to the desert 18th January 2013 For now, the region is cheering France’s launching of a war on many fronts against the jihadists although it is likely to drag on for many more months As France pours men and money into the battle against jihadists, the contours of Mali’s crisis are rapidly changing. Bombing raids may have ended the militants’ hegemony over the p...
Vol 54 No 1 | MALI Talk first, fight later 10th January 2013 The Bamako government wants to use negotiations – and military muscle – to retake the northern provinces seized by jihadists The grand plan for Mali’s army to wrest the northern provinces of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu from jihadist militias is due to swing into operation in the second half of the year. It ...
Vol 54 No 1 | MALI Django unchained 10th January 2013 New Prime Minister Django Sissoko has started well, winning support for his government with his consensual style. A member of the nominated Transitional Assembly before his promoti...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | MALICHINA Deals miss election deadline 5th August 2013 The IMF sounded alarm bells over the sidelining of Finance Minister Coulibaly in late June after he opposed several rushed deals with Beijing Uncertainty hangs over three controversial deals with China that President Dioncounda Traoré’s outgoing transitional government had hoped to conclude before the first ...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | MALICHINA Intervention for the non-interventionists 5th August 2013 They will not be involved in combat but Chinese troops will be joining the new peacekeeping force in Mali China is sending troops to the new United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in late June that it would dispatch its largest single co...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | MALIINDIA Not in our back yard 31st May 2013 While Mali’s government is preoccupied with retaking the northern region occupied by Islamists and Tuareg rebels, Indian firm Sahara Mining is facing challenges of its own in Tienf...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | MALIASIA China cool on intervention 11th February 2013 Japan and India have pledged their support but China has legal – and ideological – doubts about the French response to the crisis Japan promised US$120 million, India $101 mn. and China $1 mn. These headline pledges in emergency aid to Mali graphically illustrate Beijing’s unease at a crisis-management strate...
Vol 53 No 25 | MALI Captain Sanogo strikes back 14th December 2012 The putschists are spending more time shoring up their local power base than promoting the transition and the reunification of the country The appearance of a shaken Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra on state television just before dawn on 11 December proffering apologies to the Malian people along with his resignat...
Vol 53 No 25 | MALI Ructions over reconquest plan 14th December 2012 Growing divisions among Mali’s politicians and military, as well as among foreign powers, will delay plans for an internationally backed intervention to oust jihadists from the nor...
Vol 53 No 22 | MALI Soldiers get ready 2nd November 2012 As Europe steps up offers of military training and equipment, and Algeria agrees to help, preparations intensify for Bamako’s march northwards This week, teams of West African, African Union and United Nations military planners descended on Bamako to get an agreement from President Dioncounda Traoré’s government on a stra...
