The size of the delegation that came to Mali's bedside on Thursday alone shows the gravity of the crisis shaking the country. Five regional heads of state - Nigeria, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal - landed in the morning to try to find an agreement between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, says IBK, and the protesters demanding his departure. "So many presidents, it's unheard of," said sociologist Brema Ely Dicko. The task promised to be difficult, and the chances of success held out as the threads of the problem seemed inextricably tied.
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The protests crystallized in the spring, on June 5, during a large demonstration on Independence Square from which the movement takes its name, the M5-Rassemblement des forces patriotique (M5-RFP). The evil runs deeper, however. A first wave broke in 2017 before being difficult to stop. Each time the populations are rumbling against bad governance, corruption, the security situation
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