DAKAR: Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the militants struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of students at an elite police training academy, stormed Bamako's airport and set the presidential jet on fire.
DAKAR: Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the militants struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of students at an elite police training academy, stormed Bamako's airport and set the presidential jet on fire.
According to the UN's International Organization for Migration , the route to Europe with the steepest rise in numbers this year is via West African coastal nations to Spain's Canary Islands. The military juntas that replaced them have since swapped French and US military assistance for Russians, mainly from Wagner's mercenary outfit, but have continued to lose ground.
But the Americans were booted out after they angered Niger's coup leaders by refusing to share intelligence and warning them against working with the Russians. The US is still looking for a place to reposition its assets. In Burkina Faso, perhaps the worst affected of all, militants affiliated with al Qaeda slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a day on Aug 24 in the town of Barsalogho, two hours from the capital Ouagadougou.
A UN panel of experts that monitors the two organisations' activities estimates that JNIM, the al Qaeda-aligned faction most active in the Sahel, had 5,000-6,000 fighters while 2,000-3,000 militants were linked to Islamic State.Militants use a mixture of coercion and the offer of basic services, including local courts, to install their systems of governance over rural communities that have long complained of neglect by weak, corrupt, central governments.
European governments are divided on how to respond to the conflict. Southern European nations who receive most migrants favour keeping communication with the juntas open, while others object because of human rights and democracy concerns, nine diplomats in the region told Reuters.
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