Algerian Salaphis in the Insurgency?

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Algerian salapis were not really interested in imali, but they had become a malian power because they have stayed there for so long. The problem was actually the fulani from niger who joined the jeharist group for a very specific reason. So now we have taken over this part of mali. Let's stick to it. Maybe we can be accepted. But het a gally didn't ane to. And other things were happening. You mentioned a fulany when you have actually two sulani groups that are important here. Another group was in the centre of mali, in the region that is called massina. This region of massina was

Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive interview that puts the present conflict—which has drawn in French military and then Russian mercenary intervention—into deep historical and political-economic context from struggles over the slave trade, through French colonialism, to the neocolonial imposition of neoliberalism. Idrissa’s work: newleftreview.org/issues/ii132/articles/rahmane-idrissa-the-sahel-a-cognitive-mapping newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/kabores-defeat nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/25/potent-policies-of-empire lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/rahmane-idrissa/coup-contrecouplrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/rahmane-idrissa/countries-without-currency Special outro music from Ali Farka Touré. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: haymarketbooks.org/books/1887-inside-the-second-wave-of-feminism