LETTER FROM MAGHREB. Can Russia’s Mercenary Diplomacy in Mali Prosper? Feedback from Libya.
By Benoit Delmas
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Can what is happening in Bamako contaminate Algiers or Tripoli? Between jihad, repeated coups and interventions by Russian paramilitaries, Mali has accumulated many scourges. Plagues that seem impossible to becalm. Fear ? That these demons play with borders, plague the countries of the North, those that make up the Maghreb and then cross the Mediterranean on migrant boats. Mali has a common border with Algeria, more than one thousand three hundred kilometers. Jihadist groups, the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM, affiliated with Al-Qaeda) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS, Daesh), are attacking civilian populations, the armed forces, everything which can hinder their progress. To the point that some wilayas of neighboring Mauritania…
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