Analysis - Just ten years after the rescue of Mali official government by the French military operation Serval, which became Barkhane a few months later, the security situation in that country remains structurally more fragile than in 2013. Beyond Mali, it is most seriously threatened throughout the Sahel to the edges of Lake Chad and the gulfs of Benin and Guinea. Why, despite the massive, both international and internal, human and material resources injected, does such security deterioration continue?
In despite of large-scale human and material resources, both international and internal, security deterioration continues in Mali and throughout the Sahel to the edges of Lake Chad and the gulfs of Benin and Guinea.Nouakchott — Just ten years after the rescue of Mali official government by the French military operation Serval, which became Barkhane a few months later, the security situation in that country remains structurally more fragile than in 2013.
Faced with the civil and military shortcoming responses to the governments, populations have started organizing themselves. To defend themselves and protect their properties - water wells, animals and pastures - they formed armed groups based on traditional affinities. But above all, they entered, with determination, the various circuits of drug trafficking, cigarettes and logistics for migrations flows.
Every day eyewitnesses, external partners - bilateral and multilateral - watch helplessly this continued degradation of public services. To their credit, any observation, even constructive and friendly, is often denounced either as an inadmissible interference or as an odious"recolonization" attempt. Transparency and search for administrative efficiency displease deeply many decision-makers and especially their tribal supporters in the economic sectors.
The race for quick enrichment, as well as the gradual return of tribalism and regionalism - closely linked - weakens the leadership ability to anticipate the future. Most are trapped by the daily routine. Anticipating future crises and managing the current ones is problematic for the leaders and suspicious to ordinary citizens.
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