This will only anger the opposition further, as three justices were named by the head of Mali’s national assembly, who under Ecowas recommendations should have resigned already
Andrew Lebovich on the controversial new members of Mali's constitutional court
This is going to potentially lead to some reconsideration of how Nigerien and international forces are positioned and coordinated in preventing further attacks
Andrew Lebovich discusses the current unrest in Mali at BBC Newsday
The current political configuration makes transitional justice very delicate, since the power-sharing agreement reached last year between the junta that overthrew Omar al-Bashir’s regime and the revolutionary forces enshrines a role for the military and paramilitaries
In an interview with RFI Jean-Baptiste Gallopin comments on the efforts to bring justice to the 3 June massacre in Sudan
Another part of it is a lack of effective control over security forces, and either a lack of means to effectively punish the people who perpetrate these attacks, or the lack of political will, either from military leadership or civilian governments to police these military
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