1/2: #Africa: #Mali: The collapse of order in Francophone West Africa: the jihad rising in Mali; Wagner Group prospering in West Africa. Caleb Weiss, Bridgeway Foundation. Bill Roggio, FDD
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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1/2: #Africa: #Mali: The collapse of order in Francophone West Africa: the jihad rising in Mali; Wagner Group prospering in West Africa. Caleb Weiss, Bridgeway Foundation. Bill Roggio, FDD
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2023/09/analysis-setting-the-stage-for-malis-near-future.php
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| 0:20.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World, I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:23.1 | West Africa, especially francophone West Africa, much in the news because of a series of |
| 0:27.7 | coups over these last years, most recently in Niger, trouble for the United States with a |
| 0:34.3 | base there, a drone base there. However, before that, Burkina Faso and Central African |
| 0:40.5 | Republic and Mali, a nation of 21 million people, spread landlocked between two components, |
| 0:48.3 | the Southwest and the Northeast. The Tuarga-Pleep people dominate the Northeast. |
| 0:54.5 | There is a government in Bamako in the Southwest that since 2020 has been in the hands of the |
| 1:00.6 | military, led by a man named Colonel Gohita, to help me with this story, which is as many moving |
| 1:07.5 | parts as you can imagine in the violence of Africa, Europe, and Asia. Bill Rajo, as my colleague and |
| 1:16.2 | co-host, he is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, he keeps the |
| 1:21.1 | Longwear Journal and his co-editor. At the Longwear Journal, Caleb Weiss, we welcome |
| 1:26.6 | of the Bridgeway Foundation to help us understand the violence in Mali, where right now the Giharris, |
| 1:35.3 | which are also divided between factions, are on the on the advance. Caleb, a very good |
| 1:41.9 | evening to you, thank you for this. The Gohita government in Bamako is hard pressed by two |
| 1:47.4 | aspects of the Giharris, JNIM and ISSP. Let's start with JNIM. You link that to Al-Qaeda, |
| 1:56.0 | are they on the march and where are they gaining? Good evening to you, Caleb. |
| 1:59.6 | Yeah, good evening, John. Thank you for having me again. Yeah, JNIM or the group for support |
| 2:04.7 | of Islam and Muslims is the sort of sub-branch for Al-Qaeda and the Islamic grab in the Sahel. |
| 2:13.4 | So it is an official branch of Al-Qaeda, but also an official branch of AQIYAH. |
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