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
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
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
Gaddafi, Mali and the Tuaregs: The law of unintended consequences
Lindsey Hilsum on the links between the conflict in Mali and the demise of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.
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How Gaddafi's legacy beyond the grave led to coup in Mali
The demise of Colonel Gaddafi was a stone cast into a pool – a huge wave rather than a ripple has hit Libya’s neighbour, Mali.