00:00Mali faces increased pressure through a coordinated campaign aimed at destabilizing the state.
00:05This includes simultaneous assault on major cities, covert infiltration strategies, and unlikely alliance among rival factions.
00:12Security landscape is changing quickly, as analyzed by Josias Assemo, a political scientist and expert in public policy and governance.
00:21The objective is to push the state, meaning the current government, to lose its gains and to take back certain
00:27territories.
00:28There have been simultaneous attacks across several cities and key locations, including Gawa and Kedal, as well as specific neighborhoods.
00:37The aim is to cease control and quickly and easily destabilize the authorities in power.
00:42What is also striking is a number of people involved in what is happening.
00:46The approach has been to address in Malian army uniforms.
00:50In general, they wear the clothing associated with the army, and they have been preparing this operation.
00:56Some say for nearly a month, others for more than two weeks.
01:00They had already infiltrated Malian society and were waiting for the signal from the leaders of these movements to launch
01:07these attacks.
01:08However, the Malian army has responded.
01:12In its counter-offensive, it was also observed that civilians took part.
01:16While the army was responding, some members of the population went into the field to recover bodies and finish what
01:23had already been carried out by the Malian army's airstrikes.
01:27What we know is that Mali is now fighting against these movements that have decided to attack together, even though
01:34they are rivals in the objectives.
01:36On one side, there is the FLA, which seeks to reclaim territory and presents itself as an independent movement.
01:43On the other side, there is Jinim, linked to Al-Qaeda, which aims to take control of the entire territory
01:49to establish a caliphate.
01:51The objectives are clear, not the same, but they have managed, through an agreement, to form an alliance to attack
01:58Mali.
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