Jihadists on the toads of the capital. "Russia replaced France"

A small over a decade ago, things were completely different. At the time jihadists were in retreat, mainly due to the intervention of France, which in 2013 began an armed operation in Mali under the code name "Serval". A direct impetus for action was the events of 2012, an indirect consequence of the war in neighboring Libya. At the time, the Tuaregs, or the Berber nomadic people surviving in the Sahel area (mainly Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, broke out in Mali).