Bridges from Bamako

• Polling the Malian public 4 days ago One year ago I wrote about Bamako’s “lone pollster,” an independent, unaffiliated Malian statistical economist doing his own surveys of public opinion in Mali’s capital city. Mr. Sidiki Guindo is still at it, and has just come out with results … Continue reading →
• Why Mali won't be ready for July elections 3 weeks ago Elections must be held in Mali, and soon; of that there can be no doubt. Mali desperately needs new leadership. The current caretaker government, put in place last year after negotiations between ECOWAS and the junta that ousted the unpopular … Continue reading →
• The floating hippo 2 months ago Author’s note: a few months ago, historians Baz Lecocq (Ghent University) and Gregory Mann (Columbia University) assembled a multinational, interdisciplinary team of Mali scholars to write a comprehensive analysis of that country’s crisis. In all, eight researchers specializing in...
• Mali's coup, one year on 3 months ago It was a year ago this morning that we woke up in Bamako to a changed reality. Soldiers at a barracks outside the city had mutinied against their commanders, taken over state broadcasting and the presidential palace, and toppled the … Continue reading →
• Six steps to fix a broken Mali 3 months ago It’s too soon to declare Operation Serval a success, and there are already concerns about its eventual end, but the French-led military intervention in Mali has at least brought the country back from the brink of disaster, and opened up … Continue reading →

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