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War and Rumours of War: Returning to Northern Mali, by Ole Martin Gaasholt
The conflict that broke out in Northern Mali in January 2012 delayed yet again a long awaited return to the place where I had undertaken fieldwork, and long before that, spent one whole year of my adolescence. While my parents … Continue reading
Ground zero: Revival of Democratic Mali?
Not long ago Mali was considered a beacon of democracy in West Africa. Then came a military coup, out of the blue to many outsiders, and a rapid mobilization of several armed groups, more or less radical in religious view, … Continue reading
The Malian crisis: causes, consequences, responses by Morten Bøås and Mats Utas
Even if Northern Mali has been in the hands of armed Salafist forces since spring 2012, it has not yet morphed into another ‘Afghanistan’. The Salafist forces, may have taken the name of al-Qaeda, but they are of a different … Continue reading
A scary end for Democrazy in Mali, by Ruben Eberlein
Each time political scientists in the West talked about democratisation in Africa during the last twenty years, you could bet that Mali was rated as a reformer and a good example. The country received a lot of plaudit from Western … Continue reading
Mali: Towards a neo-trusteeship? (by Yvan Guichaoua)
This is the second part of a two-part analysis of the present situation in Mali. Part I, entitled “Mali: the fallacy of ungoverned space” is available here. Preventing the fall of Bamako into Islamist hands is the official trigger of … Continue reading
Mali: the fallacy of ungoverned spaces (by Yvan Guichaoua)
This is the first part of a two-part analysis of the present situation in Mali. Part II, entitled “Mali: toward a neo-trusteeship?” will explore the responses to Mali’s crisis. Repeatedly in the past weeks, UK Prime Minister David Cameron called … Continue reading
Report from Mali (by Marc-André Boisvert)
TV host from a distant news channel: How is it in Mali now that the War is over, Marc-Andre…. Buoy-z-vert? Marc-André: Well… The last weeks have been a marathon for me where I have multiplied media intervention with hosts from … Continue reading
New situation in Mali and wider Sahel
Military efforts combining French, Malian and most recently troops from Niger and Chad have quickly managed to uproot the various militia groups in Northern Mali and driven them into deserted mountain areas. During the last weeks we have seen an … Continue reading
The best recipe for protracted warfare in Mali is aerial bombing and rushed deployment of peacekeeping forces
Either you act quick before too much damage is done, or you have patience and try all avenues for peaceful dialogue. I have tried to make sense of the long delayed international approving of PKO deployment to the Mali crisis … Continue reading
Mali : the unexpected crisis, a year later…. (guest post by Marc-André Boisvert)
When I moved to Bamako a bit more than a year ago, the international community praised Mali for being a beacon of democracy and stability. I did not see that. I am not pretending that I knew that almost two-third … Continue reading
Mats Utas 