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Ulf Laessing
Academic
Head of the Sahel programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Mali.
Notable Quotes
"The incident appeared to be the largest co-ordinated jihadist attack on Mali for years."View Story →
"The incident appeared to be the largest co-ordinated jihadist attack on Mali for years."View Story →
"For Russia the attack has been a disaster."View Story →
"Remarkably, there has been a coordination between jihadis and Tuareg rebels, which have nothing in common, but they have a joint enemy."View Story →
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