In Mali, the junta plays the card of Moscow against Paris

On this Friday morning, Mali buried Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

The funeral of the former president, who died on January 16, whom everyone calls only “IBK”, illustrated the difficulties that the country is going through.

At the edge of the tomb, in his forever home, where a gathering of continental dignitaries should have paraded, there was only a crowd of relatives.

But none of his former counterparts or French dignitaries with the late literary Francophile.

Between the Malian authorities, neighboring governments and especially France, relations are icy.

The escalation, between acrimonious declarations and blows of the chin, began last May when Colonel Assimi Goïta, president of the transition, who in 2020 overthrew "IBK", carried out a second coup and expressed his desire to stay in power.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional organization, reacted firmly, demanding elections as soon as possible, imposing a series of sanctions...

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