Lindsey Hilsum
Mali: dangers of a rushed election
As Malians prepare to head to the election polls on Sunday, Lindsey Hilsum considers the serious implications for the country’s stability if not enough people vote.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
Sandstorm update – the links between Mali and Libya
I’ve updated my book Sandstorm with an epilogue, taking into account the killing of the US ambassador and other events in Libya. I also write on Mali, showing the links between events in the two countries.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Landmines outside Gao show Mali’s guerrilla war has started
Landmines on the road out from Gao, recently liberated from the jihadis, shows Mali’s conflict is entering a new stage, and the French will have to tread more softly when they reach Kidal.
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Less mission creep, more mission fatigue
For all the talk of “mission creep” in north Africa and comparisons to Tony Blair, this Prime Minister does not have the stomach for foreign wars of any scale.
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Lindsey Hilsum
What justice was like under the jihadis in Mali
Issa Alzouma made a living from digging gravel for construction companies in Gao, Mali, until they cut off his hand.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Mali: after the fire, now the reckoning
All over Gao, you can see the wreckage left by the jihadis. But the damage which will be hardest to repair is in people’s heads.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Gao reclaims the freedoms it lost under jihadi rule
Residents of the Malian city of Gao, retaken from jihadis at the weekend, are once more enjoying the freedom to dress as they please, to ride on a motor bike – and to wear glasses to see the world.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Inside Gao – motorbikes, celebrations and ‘liberté’
It is hard to find the words to describe a scene of such passion and thrill as the extraordinary moment I witnessed streaming through the streets of Gao this afternoon.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Mali: the long road to Gao
We entered a village and suddenly the village of Gossi were talking to London too, crowding round the vehicle and shouting “Vive La France” and “welcome, welcome”. It was an amazing moment.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Mali: how will the city of Gao welcome the French?
We hope to be in Gao later today to witness how the French in Mali are greeted in the first major city to fall to them in this war.
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Lindsey Hilsum
A child soldier with Mali’s mujaheddin – or a lost boy without work?
Adam Drabo is 16. In search of work, he became a cook for the mujaheddin fighting for control of Mali. Then he was captured by government soldiers.
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Lindsey Hilsum
What you to need to know about Mali – a beginner’s guide
The war in Mali has been characterised as a simple battle between Islamic fundamentalists and French forces lending support to the Malian army and government, but the reality is a little more complex.
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Gary Gibbon
North Africa: How involved is Britain?
Was the tragedy in the desert an epiphany for David Cameron? Or is this inflated rhetoric that doesn’t match what is fundamentally an unchanged level of commitment?
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Lindsey Hilsum
‘Shell-shocked’ Malians welcome their liberation from jihadis
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum is the first British journalist to enter the recaptured Malian town of Diabaly with French troops.
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Jon Snow
The band from Mali I hugged in Shepherds Bush
To hear them in performance is to bask in the desert heat and wind of the Sahara. But the conflict in Mali has silenced the fabulous Tuareg musicians of Tinariwen.