Vol 63 No 22 |
- MALI
- FRANCE
- SAHEL
After accusing France of supporting Islamist militia groups at a UN Security Council meeting on 18 October Bamako's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop dialled down the rhetoric five days later at the Dakar Security Forum insisting Mali could work with any partner including Paris if they didn't dictate policy...
Its combative Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop even wrote to the UN Security Council claiming France was supplying terrorist groups...
Mali's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop has reportedly sought to justify this as a means of pressuring leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to soften sanctions...
In New York this week foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop devoted more time to complaining about France's refusal to allow the Malian army into the then newly liberated Touareg town of Kidal back in 2013 than with the urgent challenges confronting his country today...
On 4 May Mali's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop was in Lomé to ask Togo to act as a facilitator in relations with the international community – potentially a means of exploring the scope for an understanding with Ecowas without being seen to cede ground to the bloc's official mediator Goodluck Jonathan...
Mauritanians have been murdered in at least two incidents forcing Bamako's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop into a placatory dash to Nouakchott to promise a joint enquiry and security patrols in western border areas...
Col Goïta and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop have avoided Choguel Maïga-style rhetoric while defending their regime's sovereign right to work with the international forces of its choosing...
DISPATCHES
The decision by junta leader Colonel Assimi Göita and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop to deploy fighters from the Wagner Group also threatens Opération Barkhane the French–led anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel region and its planned successor the multinational force Operation Takuba including troops from several European countries...
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' It was Col Göita's and Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop's agreement to deploy fighters from Russia's Wagner Group which has close ties to the Kremlin that has triggered the fall-out with France and the US (AC Vol 62 No 23 Bamako and Moscow defy Paris & Vol 63 No 2 Moscow guns for African gold)...
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On 1 January Malian foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop told Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – chairing the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) – that the military may have to rule for a further five years...
The Moscow trip on 12 November by Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop (AC Vol 62 No 23 Bamako and Moscow defy Paris) for talks with Russian counterpart Sergeï Lavrov further fuelled European mistrust...
