• 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

Hollande’s visit coincided with a vote in the UN Security Council authorizing ECOWAS intervention in Mali; something Algeria, Mali's northern neighbor, objected to.

• Gregory Mann

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