The government of the Republic of Mali firmly rejects the argument of a member state of the G5 Sahel which advances the national internal political situation to oppose the exercise by Mali of the presidency of the G5 Sahel 

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 Bamako considers that the fact for the G5-Sahel to refuse to hand over the rotating presidency of the organization to him, when his turn has arrived for three months, is a 'negative discrimination' unacceptable which is based on a 'policy of double standards' inspired, to be clear, on what is left unsaid by France, which is manipulating Niger.

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 what will the G5-Sahel be without Mali geographically located at the center of its perimeter of intervention? 

 Mali: who to stop the destructive one-upmanship?" 

There is no need to dwell on the reasons that could have led the Malian authorities to take the decision to withdraw the country from the G5 Sahel.

These reasons can be summed up in one word: extremism,

Ledjely.

A logic of radicality to which all the parties involved in the Malian crisis resort constantly.

On the one hand, the Malian authorities.

On the other, ECOWAS, WAEMU and France.

(…) With its decision taken yesterday, Mali has just signified that the prospect of the implosion of sub-regional bodies is no longer a figment of the imagination.

Today, it is the G5 Sahel in question.

But tomorrow, it could well concern ECOWAS, UEMOA or even the African Union. 

Malian and Russian flags, slogans against the French military presence: thousands of people were in the streets on Friday to support the Malian soldiers,

And speak out against the possibility of prosecution by the International Criminal Court. 

 the ICC has never announced that it has issued any arrest warrant against a Malian military official.

But the specter of this hypothesis now dominates the discourse.

For an observer of social movements, it is a 'conditioning of the crowd in relation to what could one day happen.

Once again, we are playing the conspiracy card

 the objective of this demonstration was to support the actions of the FAMa against the terrorists on the ground and to reaffirm in the eyes of the whole world that the Malian army only executes the mission of the sovereign people of Mali, contrary to what we want people to believe.

a freedom of the press in sharp decline: this situation is unprecedented in the country

and journalists are now regularly summoned and warned by the high authorities. from the country.

(…) The informational manipulation efforts of the Wagner mercenaries bore fruit in the space of only a few months,

Mali Tribune.

In this context, some Malian journalists and bloggers are trying to respond by mobilizing.

Some of them thus gave birth to the Association of Bloggers of Mali.

These journalists have become aware of the great role they can play in the fair processing and dissemination of information to meet the aspirations of the people.

A question arises, however,

Mali Tribune: how long can this salutary initiative last before being muzzled by Wagner?