{"id":43203,"date":"2026-05-01T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/01\/military-force-unable-to-solve-mali-crisis-is-political-solution-only-viable-path-forward\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:02:00","slug":"military-force-unable-to-solve-mali-crisis-is-political-solution-only-viable-path-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/01\/military-force-unable-to-solve-mali-crisis-is-political-solution-only-viable-path-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Military force unable to solve Mali crisis&rsquo;: Is political solution only &lsquo;viable path forward&rsquo;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Mali&rsquo;s junta mourns the death of Defence Minister General Sadio CamaraIn, with thousands coming out to pay tribute, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Fran\u00e7ois Picard welcomes Paul Melly, Consulting Fellow for the Africa Programme at Chatham House and expert on the Sahel region. He offers a sobering assessment of Mali\u2019s deepening crisis, framing current events within both historical precedent and a radically altered geopolitical landscape. While echoes of the 2012 Mali crisis are unmistakable, \u00ab\u00a0are we in the same situation as in 2012 when the French military had to swoop in to save Mali&rsquo;s capital from being overrun by insurgents?\u00a0\u00bb asks Fran\u00e7ois Picard.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Mali&rsquo;s junta mourns the death of Defence Minister General Sadio CamaraIn, with thousands coming out to pay tribute, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Fran\u00e7ois Picard welcomes Paul Melly, Consulting Fellow for the Africa Programme at Chatham House and expert on the Sahel region. He offers a sobering assessment of Mali\u2019s deepening crisis, framing current events within both &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-43203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}