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Gregory Mann, Historian, Columbia University

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As France sends troops to Mali, Gregory Mann, a historian specialised in West Africa at Columbia University, highlights long-term factors that have allowed Jihadists to thrive in northern Mali. Mann argues that if European governments hadn’t paid ransoms over the years, and if European drug users didn’t have such a taste for Latin American cocaine that passes through West Africa, Mali wouldn’t be in such a mess today.

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