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 kilometres...
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 northern...
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 and...
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...
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...
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...
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 promotion, he...
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 round of national elections held on...
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...