Today, the greatest threat, and the worse difficult consequences to contain it, is not located in the Northern part of Mali, as one could legitimately think, but paradoxically, in the South and more specifically in Bamako.
The Situation in Mali & Its Impact on The Sahel Sahara Briefing
by Ahmedou ould Abdallah, President of the Center 4s May 8, 2012
in Nouakchott, Mauritania
The anarchy that is developing in Mal, after the crisis that stroke with the military coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) undermines the stability across Sahel Sahara. It also reopens the debate on the weight of Islamist groups and the impact of the fall of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime for the region.
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e Sahel-Saharan region is a large, arid area in the deserted Northern part of Africa. It runs from East to West in between Senegal and the confines of Sudan. The population is sparse and very difficult to reach in this strip of land. Today, the region has become a no man’s land out of any State control.
Growing insecurity engendered by international terrorism and trafficking of all kinds in the Sahel Sahara area should not obscure an even more pernicious reality: that of a vast band of land nearly decimated by climate degradation. There is nowhere on this planet a place as bleak, or as damaged. The fauna, flora and the men are trapped in a climate tragedy.
