Sahel Region and Crisis in Mali: Military Rule, Islamist Insurgency, and Fragmentation
Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
The Sahel continues to endure a profound geopolitical and humanitarian crisis, with 2026 exposing the mounting weaknesses of state authority across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Years of military coups, Islamist insurgency, ethnic grievances, economic deprivation, and entrenched patronage networks have created a dangerous convergence of political…
