The invasion of Ukraine has been not so much a wake-up call as a repeated alarm – first Georgia in 2008, then Crimea in 2014, now Ukraine in 2022. On the third time, the world has realised that it can no longer press the snooze button on Russia’s aggression. But to suggest that this is …
France is to withdraw its troops from Mali, in the enforced culmination of a nine-year mission to help preserve security in the porous and febrile West African nation. Parallels can perhaps be drawn with last year’s international retreat from Afghanistan, in terms of a sudden and unexpected change in authority that hastened the departure and …
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After a two rounds vote concluded earlier this month, and various fraud allegations, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has won another term as President of Mali. Since 2012 the country has been experiencing a deep crisis characterized by rebellions and widespread violence mostly in the northern region; during his first term in power Keita was not able …
