Aug 24, 2020 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahara
Mali’s latest coup d’état, on Tuesday 18 August, has been almost universally condemned internationally and especially by the African Union (AU), Mali’s neighbouring Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the UN and France. By contrast, most Malians have...
Aug 18, 2020 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahara
On 23 July in our Sahara Focus regular monthly report we predicted that Mali’s political crisis will have serious implications for the whole region. Following the regime’s lethal gun attack on the 11 July peaceful demonstration, the way in which Mali’s political...
Jul 23, 2020 | Menas Associates, Sahara, Sahel
Following the regime’s lethal gun attack on the 11 July peaceful demonstration, the way in which Mali’s political crisis develops will have serious implications for the entire West African and Sahelian regions. If President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) is forced to...
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...
May 20, 2020 | Menas Associates, Sahara
The latest issue of Sahara Focus is dominated by credible reports that the regional national armies — notably those of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — have been escalating a campaign of terrorising the Sahel’s civilian population. Officially it is designed to root out...
Apr 23, 2020 | Menas Associates, Sahara
The 23 March attack by Boko Haram’s Bakura Doron group on the Chadian army garrison on the Bohoma peninsula and the army’s large and very successful retaliation has shifted the focus of attention on the Sahel’s jihadism from the three borders region — between Mali,...
