Jun 26, 2020 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahara
Mali is facing an unprecedented — and some might say long overdue — political crisis. June witnessed two massive demonstrations in Bamako, numbering tens of thousands of people, demanding the resignation of 75-year-old President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK). Exactly...
Oct 31, 2019 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahara
The root of the failure of France’s Operation Barkhane in the Sahel is Paris’ inability to understand not just the political stakes but also the motivations that push hundreds of young people to join jihadism. Since France sent its troops to Mali in January 2013,...
Sep 19, 2019 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahara
Mahmoud Dicko: from religous leader to politician? Mahmoud Dicko — who stood down in April after 11 years as president of the High Islamic Council of Mali — appears to be a resurgent force in Malian politics. Back in 2010, he was preaching against the high levels of...
May 1, 2019 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahel
Inter communal attacks in the Mopti Region and the lack of governance and security have led to hundreds of deaths in the last year alone The massacre of at least 160 Peul (Fulani) in the village of Ogossagou in the southern Mopti Region in late March constituted the...
