Oliver Farry is happy to welcome Paul Melly, Consulting Fellow on the Africa Program at Chatham Home. In keeping with Melly, what we’re witnessing is the convergence of a number of fractures: political, territorial, and army. The latest assaults illustrate a dramatic enlargement of jihadist operational attain into the very coronary heart of state energy. Whereas the Malian state may not be collapsing outright, its authority is stretched dangerously skinny throughout Africa’s eighth largest nation. The withdrawal of int’l actors, mixed with the boundaries of partnerships, has uncovered structural vulnerabilities.
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