Under pressure to step down mollys president is accused of failing to improve the economy and deal with threats from groups hes dissolved the Constitutional Court but controversially overturned Election Results in march but is that enough of what if turmoil spirals out of control this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program Adrian Finnegan its been described as the worst civil unrest in mali has seen in decades violent antigovernment protests this week left several people dead president abraham. Has promised to form a National Unity government the country has been without one since elections earlier this year he has dissolved the constitutional course and that the economy is failing and they want president catered to resign now to 0 as shown at betis reports. In bamako a solemn feel well for protest as they can see say the 30 year old was killed on friday his family says he was shot in front of mollys National Assembly. His mother was sick already when we broke the news to her sh
Testified about issues, including isis activities and influence in the region, as well as efforts to come back cyberterrorism. This is 40 minutes. Im going call the meeting to order, the subcommittee. Thank you all for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one, were going to have votes starting at 3 00. Well deal with that when we have to deal with that. Second thing is this committee doesnt meet as frequently as many other committees. But primary reason being that the issues we deal with are of significant magnitude that theyre generally dealt with by the whole community. So either this committee wraps itself around the other or vice at it. But in any event, we really deem that this was an appropriate subject, however, for this subcommittee. Obviously, the complexity of dealing with the issues on north africa are certainly worthy of our consideration. Thus the meeting today. And we have a very good panel to help us deal with these people who deal with this all the tim
Im going call the meeting to order, the subcommittee. Thank you all for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one, were going to have votes starting at 3 00. Well deal with that when we have to deal with that. Second thing is this committee doesnt meet as frequently as many other committees. But primary reason being that the issues we deal with are of significant magnitude that theyre generally dealt with by the whole community. So either this committee wraps itself around the other or vice at it. But in any event, we really deem that this was an appropriate subject, however, for this subcommittee. Obviously, the complexity of dealing with the issues on north africa are certainly worthy of our consideration. Thus the meeting today. And we have a very good panel to help us deal with these people who deal with this all the time. So thank you all for being here. Ambassador sales, i know your travel schedule has been quite robust. And as a result of that, i appreciate you
Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us at todays panel. Were lucky to be joined by such esteemed experts on the region and im very eager to hear their thoughts on the developing threat in the maghreb. Im going to start by introducing everyone on the panel briefly and ask them for some opening remarks. Their detailed biographies are in the programs before you and im eager to hear what they have to say, so i invite you to look at those biographies. For more information on their background. To my left is dr. Kim cragin, Senior Research fellow for counterterrorism at the National Defense university. To her left is dr. Michael ayari. Hes a Senior Analyst for tunisia at the International Crisis group. And to his left is dr. Mohammed masbah. Hes a Research Fellow for the crown center for middle east studies at Brandeis University and an associate fellow at chatham house. Ill ask our panel to go in that order and just a couple opening topic questions. Dr. Cragin, i was wondering i
Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us at todays panel. Were lucky to be joined by such esteemed experts on the region and im very eager to hear their thoughts on the developing threat in the maghreb. Im going to start by introducing everyone on the panel briefly and ask them for some opening remarks. Their detailed biographies are in the programs before you and im eager to hear what they have to say, so i invite you to look at those biographies. For more information on their background. To my left is dr. Kim cragin, Senior Research fellow for counterterrorism at the National Defense university. To her left is dr. Michael ayari. Hes a Senior Analyst for tunisia at the International Crisis group. And to his left is dr. Mohammed masbah. Hes a Research Fellow for the crown center for middle east studies at Brandeis University and an associate fellow at chatham house. Ill ask our panel to go in that order and just a couple opening topic questions. Dr. Cragin, i was wondering i