• Gregory Mann

France's intervention never offered a real solution to any of Mali's problems, but created a set of problems to the ones this country would otherwise have faced.

• Gregory Mann

Last week’s assaults on the tombs of saints, scholars and prominent ancestors in Timbuktu punctuated a long, leaden moment in Mali's crisis.

• Gregory Mann

Mali’s rebel armies, their shifting alliances and their fans make for quite a spectacle.