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Emergence of an Alliance of Sahel States

18 September 2023

On 23 September 2023, the transitional governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger signed a security pact establishing the “Alliance of Sahel States” (AES).
“Our priority is the fight against terrorism in the three countries” declared the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, Abdoulaye Diop (...)

Mali faced with French contradictions

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 6 September 2022

After nine years of presence in Mali, the French army retired proud of the work accomplished. They indeed bravely fought the jihadists. But this assessment hides the reality. Mali’s current difficulties stem largely from NATO’s illegal intervention in Libya. As for the development of jihadist (...)

Mali calls for Security Council meeting on French double game

18 August 2022

In his 8 October 2021 interview with RIA-Novosti, Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga, accused the French secret services of training the same terrorists that the French army is said to be fighting.
On 23 December 2021, France addressed a note to Mali - co-signed by Belgium, the (...)

Mali cancels military agreements with France

15 January 2022

On 10 January 2022, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided to close land and air borders between member-countries and Mali and to freeze assets of the Republic of Mali in ECOWAS Central Banks, as sanctions in response to the announcement by the transitional authorities (...)

Mali accuses France of training the terrorists it professes to fight

20 October 2021

On 8 October 2021 during an interview with Russian news agency RIA-Novosti (photo), Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga accused France of training the terrorists it claims to be fighting [6].
“We have proof of this. In our language there is a saying that when you’re searching for a (...)

ECOWAS on Guinea and Mali

8 September 2021

1. The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held an extraordinary session on 8 September 2021, by videoconference, under the chairmanship of H.E. Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana and current (...)

Declaration of the local transition monitoring committee on Mali

24 May 2021

The local transition monitoring committee, made up of ECOWAS, the African Union and MINUSMA, with members of the international community, including France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union, express its deep concern at the situation in Mali marked by the (...)

Canada brands Al-Nusra Front a terrorist organization

11 November 2013

The honourable Steven Blaney, Canadian Minister of Public Security, announced on November 8th 2013, that his government has registered the groups Jabhat al-Nusra li Ahl al-Sham (a.k.a « al-Nusra Front ») and al-Muwaqi’un Bil Dima on the list of terrorist entities, by virtue of the criminal (...)

France hides "collateral damage" caused by its airstrikes in Mali

10 February 2013

French aircraft bombing around the city of Konna caused more deaths among civilians than among Islamists, but the French media keep silent about the "collateral damage" and glorify the "militaristic and triumphalist discourse" of Paris.
Reporting from Konna, Russia Today correspondent Wancha (...)

"No, war is not what France is all about"

by Dominique de Villepin

Paris (France) | 10 February 2013

On February 14, 2003, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin speaks before the UN Security Council to express France’s opposition to the invasion of Iraq proposed by the United States.
Mali, a friendly country, collapses. Jihadists advance towards the south, the situation is (...)

The recolonization of Africa

Condemnation of Mali war and denunciation of Western neo-colonial plot

Brussels (Belgium) | 4 February 2013

On January 11, 2013, France launched a military intervention in Mali, an African country where nearly half the population lives on less than $ 1.25 per day. Paris’ reasons for justifying this operation come straight out of the "war on terror" rhetoric, so dear to the Bush Jr. administration. (...)

Mali and AFRICOM’s Africa Agenda: Target China

by F. William Engdahl

31 January 2013

Out of the blue in the last days Mali has suddenly become the focus of world attention. France has been asked to militarily intervene by Mali’s government to drive Jihadist terrorists out of the large parts of the country they claim. What the conflict in Mali really is about is hardly what we (...)

French press reveals colonial nature of Mali intervention

30 January 2013

The French authorities take great care in their communications to emphasize that they are intervening in Mali solely at the request of the interim President and to support the Malian army.
Thus, the French Ministry of Defence stated: "After seizing Gao on the night of 26-27 January, (...)

"The Art of War"

The strategy of tension

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 24 January 2013

It is too obvious that Western economic interests in Mali are not enough to explain France’s intervention there. Similarly, it is clear that islamism is not enough to explain vast terrorist action conducted simultaneously at an Algerian gas site. For Manlio Dinucci, this cocktail contains the (...)

"Before our very eyes"

Mali: One war can hide another

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 January 2013

A long time in the making and announced by François Hollande six months in advance, the French intervention in Mali was portrayed as an emergency decision in response to dramatic developments. This scheme aims not only at seizing Mali’s gold and uranium, but more especially at paving the way (...)

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