Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151120:19:17:00
Sharant desert. in 2011, a number of these groups empowered by the collapse of gadhafi and with arms and heavy -- armed fighters, came and were able to really establish control over the northern half of mali and controlling the big towns. and so, these groups have been -- that was a moment kind of a peak moment of their power. controlling half of mali. now, following that u.n. mission and a french intervention managed to squeeze some of these groups out and bring an modicum of stability to mali but not eliminate them entirely and what you have seen with the attack on bamako and a few smaller a...