It seems that the Malian Government doesn't want to do anything to stop the proliferation of Al-Qaeda and kidnappers.
Now that the Mauritanian Government has extradited the kidnapper of the Spaniards, he has 'mysteriously' disappeared somewhere in Bamako!
The justice ministry has said that this subject is not their competence?!

When the two Spaniards were released it was made public after they entered Burkina Faso, not when they reached some big town in Mali, due to security reasons.

It is well known where the dangerous area is located (it seems that Gao and north of Gao) but nothing is done.
The only thing that seems to interest the Malian Government is to get commissions from the kidnapping ransoms.

And the worst thing is that Mali is the only democratic country in the region, so its Government can not even be criticized of being a 'corrupt dictatorship'.

I think that something should be done, because they are posing at risk the entire region.

"Something should be done..."

Any idea what this "something" should be? Or which "someone" should do it?

I have not read everything on the matter, but as I understand it, the disappearance of Omar the Saharan after his return to Mali is not mysterious - he was simply set free and 'went back to his goats'.

He was not 'extradited' in the correct sense [to face charges in the country which he got sent to - Mali] because he faced no charges in Mali. The crime he was accused of was committed in Mori last November.

He was 'released' by Mori (presumably reluctantly, as they had just given him 12 years?) because those where the demands of MBM (on top of ~€8 mil), to in turn release the last 2 Spanish hostages.

But 'released' or 'set free' does not sound so good so we were given 'extradited'.

It is possible there was some worry that the hostages would have ended up like M. Germaneau (though there is doubt GM was actually executed), so maybe that is why MBM got his way so easily.

The fact that Mori was said to have 'kidnapped' him from Mali to take back and face a trial can only be interpreted as unsportsmanlike. But at least he appeared to get a trial - not all AQ suspects kidnapped in broad daylight in Europe and elsewhere get that so soon.

I suppose Mori knew that asking for him to be arrested by Mali and then extradited to Mori to face a trial was futile.

Omar was accused of getting €15k from MBM to grab the Spanish off the highway. Who knows if he was guilty - the fact that MBM demanded his release suggests that the Moris may have had the right guy - or he was related to MBM in some way.

So I agree, his release does not send a good message about Mali, but a good one about Mori - assuming if what is known is correct and the trial was for real.

As some headline somewhere said: 'AQIM controls the Sahel...'

Ch

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