Marc Perelman meets Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou, on the same day that an attempted suicide bombing targeted soldiers from Niger in Menaka, eastern Mali. He expresses his concern about the Islamist fighters’ military strength and says the forthcoming UN peacekeeping mission in Mali should have a mandate to go on the offensive.

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