The prime minister of Mali warns that the fall of the caliphate could jump-start the flow of extremists across the Sahel.
Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga pays tribute to U.N. peacekeepers killed during operations in Mali during a Peacekeepers’ Day ceremony May 29 in Bamako.
Extremist groups, including some affiliated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, have wreaked havoc across parts of West Africa and the Sahel. In 2012, al-Qaeda-linked extremists infiltrated Mali, taking control of some of the country’s territory. A French intervention eventually beat them back, but parts of Mali remain a hotbed for extremists.
On March 23, gunmen targeted members of the Fulani ethnic group in central Mali, killing at least 157 people — many of them children. The United Nations and the International Criminal Court are sending experts to investigate the massacre. The mounting violence between Malian communities has worsened the crisis in parts of Mali that were already prone to extremist attacks. Earlier this month, militants attacked the Malian military, killing at least 23 troops in the same region where Saturday’s attack took place.A third of all attacks and 12 percent of related deaths in the Sahel since November occurred in Mali, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, a nongovernmental organization.
The stage was set for Mali’s unrest in 2011 after Libya collapsed with the fall of Moammar Gaddafi, said Adotei Akwei, deputy director for advocacy and government relations at Amnesty International USA. Fighters fled to the south and west, and weapons poured into the Sahel. Maïga acknowledged the government’s resources are spread thin, and that lack of infrastructure and equipment has made it difficult for the military to control the widespread violence.
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