Mission abort: What next for Mali after French-led withdrawal?
17 February 2022 |
1:41 pm
France’s president hosting African and European allies before the announcement of a withdrawal from Mali. Relations have seriously soured with the junta in Bamako ever since a second coup in as many years and the cozying up of the military to Russia and the mercenaries of Wagner.
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