Mali’s military junta is struggling to fight growing violence in the West African nation's hard-hit northern region.
with ethnic Tuareg rebels appears to have collapsed, deepening the security crisis.
“The attacks are growing and the armed groups are carrying out attacks against civilians — that is not new, but the frequency and the intensity,” said Tangara. Despite being one of Africa’s top gold producers, Mali is ranked the sixth least developed nation in the world. With nearly half of its 22 million people living below the national poverty line, many more face a growing humanitarian crisis as a result of the violence.
there in less than a year, according to a recent U.N. report, raising questions from some about the effectiveness of the U.N. peacekeeping force. Referred to as MINUSMA, it eventually became the most dangerous U.N. mission in the world. Any support from Wagner hasn’t been sufficient and can’t fill the security gap created by MINUSMA’s withdrawal, said Rida Lyammouri, a senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South Moroccan think tank. He said that in Mali’s hard-hit northern region, security forces are only able to limit their offensive to “few airstrikes no operations on the ground against CSP forces ,” Lyammouri added.
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