{"id":2528,"date":"2020-10-15T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:24:44","slug":"dr-yvan-guichaoua-discusses-sophie-petronins-release-what-are-the-stakes-for-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/10\/15\/dr-yvan-guichaoua-discusses-sophie-petronins-release-what-are-the-stakes-for-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Yvan Guichaoua discusses Sophie P\u00e9tronin&#8217;s release: what are the stakes for Mali?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After almost four years in captivity, Sophie P\u00e9tronin, the last French hostage held in the Sahel, was released last week.\u00a0At the same time, three other hostages were released, including <strong>Souma\u00efla Ciss\u00e9, one of the figures of the opposition against the former<\/strong>\u00a0Malian\u00a0<strong>president<\/strong>\u00a0Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK).\u00a0<strong>This is an important point marked by the Malian transitional government, which came to power after the fall of IBK on August 18, 2020.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 12<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2614\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2614\/guichaoua-yvan\">Yvan Guichaoua<\/a>, Sahel specialist at BSIS spoke to France Inter about the implications of the release: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceinter.fr\/emissions\/un-jour-dans-le-monde\/un-jour-dans-le-monde-12-octobre-2020\">https:\/\/www.franceinter.fr\/emissions\/un-jour-dans-le-monde\/un-jour-dans-le-monde-12-octobre-2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost four years in captivity, Sophie P\u00e9tronin, the last French hostage held in the Sahel, was released last week.\u00a0At the same time, three other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/10\/15\/dr-yvan-guichaoua-discusses-sophie-petronins-release-what-are-the-stakes-for-mali\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}