http://www.vice.com/ground-zero/mali#ooid=phaW5qYTrVXr01yq8kTW4f_cebmebiCR

The Malian soldiers are brave, but they are horrible at being soldiers. Let's hope this is not how we are fighting Boko Haram.

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Interesting video - fighting without any helmets and, I am sure, body armor.
The amount of wasted bullets and lack of coordination is amazing.
The sound of firing was like the Yoruba gan-gan drum going on for minutes on end, and no enemy killed (or even seen).
Thanks to the French for stepping in before those alqaida fanatics took over completely.
Africa my Africa.

Na wa o my brother. I couldn't believe it. Corruption don chop deep all across Africa. No excuse for their sloppiness.