‘Harm management mode’: Reputations of Mali junta & Russian mercenaries ‘dangle in stability’

Nadia Massih is happy to welcome Ulf Laessing, Director of Regional Sahel Programme on the Konrad Adenauer Basis. Mr Laessing provides a stark evaluation, framing latest assaults inside a broader disaster of governance. The junta is struggling to undertaking management whereas counting on an more and more compromised exterior accomplice. Russia should now show it’s “really of any use.” All of the whereas, the alliance between Tuareg separatists and jihadist forces is described as purely “tactical: they will’t agree on something past eliminating the federal government.”