Is There Any Way to Stabilize Mali?

The African nation of Mali is coming apart at the seams. Across Mali's open desert Holland, a powerful jihadist insurgency is gathering territory, besieging cities, and forcing the nation's troops into a constant, bloody retreat.

In the ultra well-armed Separatist movement, as aligned with the Jardis to launch a recent joint-defensive, it hopes that they can carve out their ancestral homelands and form a self-contained proto-state.

In the shadows, an even more insidious force is waiting for its chance to strike the Islamic State, rapidly accumulating fighters, wealth, and even territorial control.