Mr President of the ECOWAS and Mauritania, do not wait for Bamako to react. The communiqués of Western countries inviting their nationals to leave Mali are multiplying. But for them, Mali is just a matter of foreign policy. For its neighbours, it is a question of national security: the jihadists do not know borders. To let Bamako fall is to accept that a new Afghanistan will settle at our doorstep. The seizure of the capital by the jihadists would destabilize all the countries bordering Mali except Algeria, only to have to eradicate jihadism by force and politics. Since the fall of Gaddafi, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have been under constant pressure.
”Should I wait for Bamako to fall? (Parliament adopted the resolution)
