As Mali’s junta mourns the dying of Defence Minister Basic Sadio CamaraIn, with hundreds popping out to pay tribute, FRANCE 24’s François Picard welcomes Paul Melly, Consulting Fellow for the Africa Programme at Chatham Home and professional on the Sahel area. He gives a sobering evaluation of Mali’s deepening disaster, framing present occasions inside each historic precedent and a radically altered geopolitical panorama. Whereas echoes of the 2012 Mali disaster are unmistakable, “are we in the identical scenario as in 2012 when the French navy needed to swoop in to avoid wasting Mali’s capital from being overrun by insurgents?” asks François Picard.
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