News Mali Tombouctou: How France lost Mali: failure to quell jihadi threat opens door to Russia
Published on: Wednesday 22 December 2021
News source: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/how-france-lost-mali-failure-to-quell-jihadi-threat-opens-door-to-russia-1.4762859
On his arrival in the Saharan Malian town of Timbuktu in 2013 to celebrate its liberation from Islamists with the help of French forces, France’s then president François Hollande was greeted as ...
