MALI: Not a fragile state, yet

MALI: Not a fragile state, yet:

BAMAKO/MOPTI, 8 August 2012 (IRIN) - Drissa Keita, 42, fled south to Bamako, the capital of Mail, with 18 family members when Islamist extremists overran Gao in the northeast in early April. Once a civil servant, he now lives eight to a room in his brother's house, without electricity. “Conditions are very difficult… I want to return - all of my children were born in Gao - but we can't go back [while it is] under the current regime.”