The US’ Joint Operation Against ISIS In Nigeria Sends A Message To The Sahelian Alliance By Andrew Korybko The scenario of a US-backed Nigerian anti-terrorist intervention in Mali is becoming increasingly likely. Trump announced over the weekend that the US and Nigeria carried… Read More ›
French Media Confirmed That Paris Is Backing Ukraine In Mali By Andrew Korybko A division of labour can now be discerned: the US masterminded this war against Russia’s Malian ally, which al-Qaeda-aligned Islamic radicals are leading in alliance with Tuareg separatists,… Read More ›
The Sahelian Domino Effect: How Mali’s Latest Crisis Could Ignite a West African War By Andrew Korybko There’s a growing risk that Tuareg separatism might once again spread from Mali to Niger, and radical Islamist violence could spread further into there… Read More ›
The Russian-Tuareg War Was Inevitable From The Moment That Wagner Arrived In Mali By Andrew Korybko To channel Putin when referring to Syria’s accidental shooting down of a Russian spy plane in late 2018 while trying to hit an Israeli jet,… Read More ›
Reconciliation, Not Rebellion: The Only Path Forward For Mali’s Tuaregs By Andrew Korybko If the Tuareg end their rebellion, cut off their foreign patrons, and ally with the state against al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM, then elements of the Algiers Accord could be restored,… Read More ›
The West Aims To Achieve Five Goals Through Its Sponsorship Of Insurgency In Mali By Andrew Korybko If it wasn’t for the Africa Corps’ valiant defence of their positions throughout the country, Mali probably would have already fallen, but it now… Read More ›
Five Reasons Why Counterinsurgency Remains Such A Challenge For Mali By Andrew Korybko The solutions are difficult to implement during the crisis, however, but hopefully that’ll happen after (if?) it passes. Saturday’s coordinated attacks across Mali by terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels in the rural… Read More ›
The Tuareg Are Once Again Discrediting Their Cause By Functioning As Foreign Proxies By Andrew Korybko The Tuareg cause – for as legitimate as some might consider it to be – is now being exploited by the West as a cover… Read More ›
Wagner’s Withdrawal From Mali Might Reshape The Conflict’s Military-Political Dynamics By Andrew Korybko The recent friction in Russian-Algerian ties over this conflict might be alleviated while Mali could consider offering the Tuaregs broad autonomy in exchange for joining forces against radical… Read More ›
Close Russian Partner Algeria Wants Wagner To Withdraw From Mali By Andrew Korybko The best scenario is that Algeria candidly explains its interests in this conflict to Russia and pledges not to provide any material support to the Tuaregs as a… Read More ›
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