US Edition"Jnim Does Not Want to Take Bamako: It Wants to Let It Collapse"
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Current values. Since the French withdrawal in 2022, how has the security situation in Mali changed?Peer de Jong. The situation has become extremely unstable. Mali faces two distinct jihadist threats. Daesh, present in the region of the three borders to the east of the country, is leading an internationalist jihad. JNIM, on the other hand, is an Al-Qaeda-inspired coalition, structured around Tuareg leader Iyad Ag Ghali, whose objectives are more…
While Mali is slowly recovering from the shortage of oil products from Côte d'Ivoire, the blockade continues on supply convoys from Senegal. The hypothesis of an imminent takeover of Bamako by the Group of Support for Islam and Muslims (Gsim-Alqaïda) is probably not realistic. This demonstrates the lightness of the media rush about a country largely ignored by the major European media as well as the humanitarian disaster in Sudan or the war in t…
Two months after the start of the blockade imposed on southern Mali by JNIM (or GSIM for Islamic and Muslim Support Group), a Sahelian jihadist coalition founded in 2017, the issue no longer seems to be "if" the Malian capital Bamako is going to fall but rather "when." According to a source consulted by the magazine, the likelihood that Niger and Burkina Faso — which founded, together with Mali, the Alliance of Sahel States in 2023 — will come t…
The holes in Mali’s sovereignty continue to worsen, pushing the country and the military junta that governs it into an increasingly alarming situation of discontrol. Since the beginning of September, the al-Qaeda branch in the Sahel – the Support Group for Islam and the Muslims (JNIM) – has blocked the Kayes and Nioro regions in the south-west of the country. The jihadist coalition, through an intense campaign of ambushes, maintains the roads th…
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