Mali and the Islamic Reformation
After a highly successful intervention in Mali, French troops are set to return home. But, with thousands of fundamentalist killers in the desert, now poorly motorized but still armed, should they do so?
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PARIS – Mali is a landlocked West African country of 15 million people, covering 1,240,000 square kilometers (478,800 square miles), three-quarters of it desert. In the fourteenth century, the powerful Mali Empire included parts of modern-day Senegal, Guinea, and Niger. Defeated and divided, it became a French colony in the nineteenth century, regaining independence in 1960.