Understanding Mali: what went wrong and what can we do?
To understand Mali today, we have to back to its political history and geolocation . As for the geolocation, Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi). The population of Mali is 14.5 million. Its capital is Bamako . Mali is bordered by Algeria to the north, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania to the west. Subsequently, the history of Mali is a concoction of majesty -- as the nation which once constituted one of the biggest African empire -- and of anguish -- as the nation becomes more and more devastated by various armed groups. Mali political, social, and economic woes that are ravaging, decimating, and annihilating any hope, aspirations, and prospects of a better tomorrow has equipped the nation to become the hotspot of insurgency movement and more likely, as we witnessed this week, terrorist bases of operation.
In brief, the history of the country is really important to understand in order to find optimistic strategies to eradicate the path that the country is heading towards. In addition, we also need to understand how its geopolitical location has affected the country expecially after the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. In fact, lawlessness in Libya has spread across the Sahel region of northern Africa due to a spread of weapons which fell into the hands of such armed groups and fueled unrest in the region.
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