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Mali crisis: Junta entrenches itself with no political solution in sight
It has been more than a week since jihadist and separatist forces in Mali launched a major military campaign aimed at ousting the ruling junta. On the first day of the offensive, Mali’s defence minister was killed. Since then, rebels have seized a strategic military stronghold in the north and are now attempting to blockade the capital, Bamako. FRANCE 24 terrorism expert Wassim Nasr explains the latest developments.
In Mali, a precarious calm reigns on the ground: while the jihadists of the Islamic and Muslim Support Group (Jnim) and the independenceist rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) have been on the offensive since 25 April throughout the country, and especially in the North, no confrontations have been reported during the weekend. In Bamako, the blockade announced on Tuesday 28 April by the Jnim has been gradually implemented, penalizing disp…
Mali's Sheikh Oumar Diallo, a political actor (engaged in ADP-Mali's 2018 presidential campaign, alongside candidate Aliou Boubacar Diallo), rebelled against the French media's bias in favour of separatist and jihadist groups that led to the massive and complex attack on 25 April. This positioning, undoubtedly motivated by Paris' hostility to the Bamako authorities, irritates the Malian public and the diaspora. Cheikh Oumar Diallo The French pla…
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