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Wednesday, 15 August, 2012

'Intervention is premature' in Mali

With international attention focussed on the situation in Syria, experts are sounding the alarm about Mali. Just last week the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that Islamist groups now control two-thirds of the country and that zone could become a terrorist safe haven. The crisis in Mali’s north has led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and has only aggravated a regional food crisis. Mali’s neighbors want a security council mandate for military intervention but is that the right solution to this ever growing problem? WRS’s Jordan Davis put that very question to Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, from the Geneva Center for Security Policy and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies:

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