{"id":18702,"date":"2026-04-30T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/18702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:59:08","slug":"damage-control-mode-reputations-of-mali-junta-russian-mercenaries-hang-in-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/18702\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Damage control mode&#8217;: Reputations of Mali junta &#038; Russian mercenaries &#8216;hang in balance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Damage control mode&#039;: Reputations of Mali junta &amp; Russian mercenaries &#039;hang in balance&#039;\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M8TiUEn2Jnk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Damage control mode&#8217;: Reputations of Mali junta &#038; Russian mercenaries &#8216;hang in balance&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNadia Massih is pleased to welcome Ulf Laessing, Director of Regional Sahel Programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Mr Laessing offers a stark assessment, framing recent attacks within a broader crisis of governance. The junta is struggling to project control while relying on an increasingly compromised external partner.\u00a0Russia must now demonstrate it is \u201cactually of any use.\u201d\u00a0All the while, the alliance between Tuareg separatists and jihadist forces is described as purely \u201ctactical: they can\u2019t agree on anything beyond getting rid of the government.\u201d<br \/>\n#Mali #Tuaregs #Jihadists<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Damage control mode&#8217;: Reputations of Mali junta &#038; Russian mercenaries &#8216;hang in balance&#8217; Nadia Massih is pleased to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,71,9984,20573,20572,50,22,23,61,20,21,2121,2459,20400,13327,13328,8310,17,18981,14786,20574,20140],"class_list":{"0":"post-18702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-burkina-faso","11":"tag-coup-detat","12":"tag-ecowas","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-france-24","15":"tag-france-24-english","16":"tag-france-24-guest","17":"tag-france24","18":"tag-france24-english","19":"tag-ghana","20":"tag-islamism","21":"tag-jihad","22":"tag-mali","23":"tag-niger","24":"tag-nigeria","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-sahel","27":"tag-senegal","28":"tag-separatists","29":"tag-tuareg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116494581311534743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}