Tag Archives: Mali

The United Nations and the African Union are moving towards the use of “peace enforcement” – but their preferred approach is unlikely to succeed.

US and allied counterterrorism strategy in the Sahel strikes out, and a thorough reassessment is in order.

Mali’s dire security situation is in the spotlight, but the political climate has also deteriorated considerably.

Officially they are there to fight terror, but external interventions may be more about self-interest.

Despite some notable counterinsurgency successes, Mali remains highly unstable, with extremist attacks taking place since the beginning of the year beyond the usual theater of operations in the country’s northern areas, threatening its neighbors.

The term ‘global land grab’ has recently re-entered the lexicon to describe a surge in national and transnational commercial large-scale land deals. In recent years, various actors, from big agribusiness corporations, to financial investors such as banks and hedge funds, to state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds, and more, have been targeting tracts of land around the world. In many …