In the Eye of the Storm: Mali’s Search for New Partners in 2022

... for dealings with Russia and anti-French policies in 2021-2022. New violence and encroaching instability Alexei Chikhachev: France and Africa: Towards a New Model of Relations? The number of jihadist attacks in Mali and the Central Sahel region (Mali,... ... Chad) have quintupled since 2016. From 2021-2022 alone, there were several jihadist attacks involving IEDs near French and MINUSMA installations across Mali. One such attack led to the death of French soldier Alexandre Martin of the 54-artillery regiment,...