A junta that's going nowhere | Article Preview

The five ruling colonels are digging in for a long stay – but neither Wagner's mercenaries nor the army are stemming the jihadist tide, The military junta is making itself comfortable. That much was clear on 21 February when the National Transitional Council (NTC), a hastily convened rubber-stamp parliament of 120 placemen of the colonels in Bamako, unanimously voted to hold elections in five years' time.

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