... towards France, as well as the G5 Sahel, has tumbled. This is largely to do with a series of diplomatic spats between France, ECOWAS, and the interim Malian government over the course of last year. Besides, sanctions have been imposed by ECOWAS and France for Mali’s purported dealings with the
Wagner Group
, a Russian private military company (PMC), and refusal to stick to the presidential elections’ timeline set by
international agreement
for February 27, 2022. Most recently, on January 14, 2022,
protests
against sanctions from ECOWAS and France have unfurled ...
... the spread of Islamism in the Sahel region, the roles of the main actors in Mali's conflict and the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali.
The webinar was attended by Herve Juvin, Member of the European Parliament, President of the Identity and Democracy Foundation; Daniel Dory, former Vice Minister of Territorial Planning of Bolivia, Associate Professor, La Rochelle University (France); Wolfgang Pusztai, Senior Advisor at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna.
Russian side was represented by: Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Denis Degterev, Head of the Department of Theory and ...
... Islamists. However, France has promised to withdraw its main contingent after the elections, to be replaced by African forces. If France manages to engage the West African countries, and maybe the African Union, within the UN peacekeeping force, there is a chance to overcome the crisis. But the outcome is far from guaranteed. In essence, it is a question of preventing Mali and entire Sahel from becoming a second Afghanistan.
In June 2012, construction of a second Mistral-class ship was commenced for the Russian Navy. Do you see more prospects for Russia-France military cooperation?
The black-and-white thinking of the Cold War is ...
