{"id":2581,"date":"2020-04-01T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T12:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T12:18:59","slug":"updates-on-mali-and-sahel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2581","title":{"rendered":"Updates on Mali and Sahel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>UN human rights chief says the underlying problem in Mali is poverty:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/fr\/story\/2020\/02\/1062691\">Au Sahel, la fin du djihadisme passera aussi par la lutte contre la pauvret\u00e9 et les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s (Bachelet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile with the US threatening withdrawal, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/29\/world\/africa\/france-sahel-west-africa-.html\">article in the New York Times<\/a> underlines the dilemma facing the French Operation Barkhane in the western Sahel: fighting an unwinnable war but unable to leave. As ICG analyst Hannah Armstrong puts it: <span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIn the same way that French reality TV and pop music is 15 years behind the U.S., French counterterrorism mimics U.S. counterterrorism of 15 years ago. In the Sahel, the Americans have already realized this is a losing battle.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN human rights chief says the underlying problem in Mali is poverty:\u00a0 Au Sahel, la fin du djihadisme passera aussi par la lutte contre la pauvret\u00e9 et les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s (Bachelet Meanwhile with the US threatening withdrawal, an article in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[252,72,412,903],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","tag-france","tag-mali","tag-sahel","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}