The following are selections from the MEMRI Daily Brief series and the MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis series from 2022. They are authored by senior MEMRI scholars and researchers specializing in different countries, regions, and languages – from the Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, South Asia, and Turkey to Africa, Russia/Ukraine, China, and the West – who are regular contributors
The Russian State-backed private military company Wagner Group has mounted a bloody campaign across Mali since December 2021, when the country's ruling military junta contracted its support to counter the growing Salafi-jihadi threat posed by Al-Qaeda's Sahelian affiliate, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), and the Islamic State's Sahel Province (ISIS).
The letter called for further actions against the Russian government-backed media platforms – namely, the complete and total removal of their accounts from prominent social media websites.