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 north and...
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 strategy...
Vol 53 No 20 | MALI Come if you must 5th October 2012 There is next to no political consensus in Mali itself for military intervention, however much support the UN and Ecowas can muster President Dioncounda Traoré’s formal request to the United Nations was clear. On 18 September, he asked for a resolution for military intervention, under Chapter 7 of the UN...
Vol 53 No 20 | MALI Mali a l’Amisom 5th October 2012 Momentum is building for international backing for the proposed military intervention in Mali to expel the jihadists.
Vol 53 No 19 | MALIMAURITANIA Dead preachers poser 21st September 2012 The handling of the killing by Malian troops of 16 Islamic preachers, nine of them Mauritanian, threatens the delicate balance between the interim regime and the army, say...
Vol 53 No 18 | MALI Sidelining Blaise 7th September 2012 President Dioncounda Traoré has now officially requested military help from the Economic Community of West African States to help quell the revolt in the north. Sensitive to the...
Vol 53 No 17 | MALI Intervention plan revealed 24th August 2012 The UN and Ecowas are thinking about a military operation in the north: the question is how, rather than whether Mali’s regional neighbours are planning a three-phase military intervention, according to a document from the Economic Community of West African States which Africa Confidential has exclusively obtained. The ‘Strategic Concept’ report...
Vol 53 No 15 | MALI The jihadists take over 19th July 2012 The MNLA has lost out to AQIM and its allies in the north and may now offer its forces to fight them In a desperate bid to hold itself together, a much weakened Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad has abandoned its ambition of an independent Azawad state. The...
Vol 53 No 15 | MALI Bamako drift 19th July 2012 Mali’s transitional Prime Minister, Cheick Modibo Diarra, is now echoing the talk in the corridors of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) of creating an enlarged...
Vol 53 No 13 | MALI Tuareg splits widen 22nd June 2012 A complex interplay of tribal, kinship, ideological and nationalist allegiances lies just beneath the surface of the Tuareg revolt When day dawns in northern Mali, another faction emerges. Sharp divisions have opened within the Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawad over how best to confront the...
