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Mali disintegrates
‘People are rejecting injustice’
Carayol, Rémi http://mondediplo.com/2018/07/02mali
Publisher: Le Monde diplomatique
Date Written: 01/07/2018
Year Published: 2018
Pages: 2pp
Resource Type: Article
Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
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Konna, population 15,000, lies on the road from Bamako to Gao. After the battle of Konna (10-17 January 2013), at the start of Operation Serval, the French military intervention in Mali, Konna was to be a symbol of renewal of the state; instead, it has come to symbolise state failure. There are burned-out cars in the sand-strewn streets, and buildings destroyed by the French bombing have been left as they were.
After the French and Malian armed forces, leading a coalition of African armies, retook the north of the country, the people of Konna thought they had seen the last of the jihadist groups. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK), elected president with a substantial majority in August 2013, promised to rebuild a strong state. He is standing for re-election on 29 July, but there is no guarantee that voting can take place nationwide: Mali is in tatters.
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