[People's Dispatch] While Western media continued prophesying the fall of the popular, sovereignist government that expelled French troops, the cabinet met on April 29 to push forward with developmental projects.
On 25 April, seven Malian localities, including Bamako and three provincial capitals, were killed under a coordinated offensive of an unprecedented magnitude since the beginning of the conflict in 2012. Al-Qaeda branch in West Africa, the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a Tuareg separatist group, joined forces with a common goal: to maximize pressure on the military junta led by Assimi Goïta and …