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Islamic State extremists have almost doubled the territory they control in Mali in less than a year, and their al-Qaida-linked rivals are capitalizing on the deadlock and perceived weakness of armed groups that signed a 2015 peace agreement, United Nations experts said in a new report.

The stalled implementation of the peace deal and sustained attacks on communities have offered the IS group and al-Qaida affiliates a chance “to re-enact the 2012 scenario,” they said.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lack of awareness is probably why their influence has grown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Feels like trump came along and American/western media focused on him instead. I also thought ISIS was irrelevant

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Conflict in the Sahel has been heating up over the past decade but it's a lot of small groups.

The reason Americans are likely seeing this in their news cycles all of a sudden is the recent coup in Niger.

  • The US has a military base in Niger.

  • Mali and Burkina Faso are now aligned with Niger - and Mali has Wagner forces.

  • Niger is mineral rich and also a big supplier of uranium, particularly for France.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

4% of the French uranium is from Niger, not really a big supplier

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm willing to be corrected but I need more info. Is that what media are reporting where you are? It's not really the impression I am getting. E.g

Over the past 10 years, France has gotten 20% of its uranium from Niger, with another 27% from Kazakhstan and 19% from Uzbekistan. While the French state-owned uranium giant Orano owns three mines in Niger, it currently operates only one. Source

I mentioned France specifically because they had military cooperation agreements with Niger before the coup (as with Mali before that) and an estimated 1,500 troops there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

ISIS is irrelevant. This is a splinter group in Mali. Closely related, but ISIS itself (as in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has been entirely forced back into the underground

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Power hungry assholes with guns are always a thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The panel of experts said in the report that the impasse in implementing the agreement — especially the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of combatants into society — is empowering al-Qaida-linked Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin known as JNIM to vie for leadership in northern Mali.

Sustained violence and attacks mostly by IS fighters in the Greater Sahara have also made the signatories to the peace deal “appear to be weak and unreliable security providers” for communities targeted by the extremists, the experts said.

The panel said the armed groups that signed the 2015 agreement expressed concern that the peace deal could potentially fall apart without U.N. mediation, “thereby exposing the northern regions to the risk of another uprising.”

The U.N. force, or MINUSMA, “played a crucial role” in facilitating talks between the parties, monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the agreement, and investigating alleged violations, the panel said.

The panel said it remains particularly concerned with persistent conflict-related sexual violence in the eastern Menaka and central Mopti regions, “especially those involving the foreign security partners of the Malian Armed Force” – the Wagner Group.

“The panel believes that violence against women, and other forms of grave abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law are being used, specifically by the foreign security partners, to spread terror among populations,” the report said.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The french or the US are going to use this as pretext for military intervention, aren't they?