November 2025

BAMAKO, MALI: For too long, the US State Department has viewed African nations not as sovereign partners, but as a collection of supplicants, easily cowed by the slightest diplomatic pressure. The imposition of the punitive Visa Bond Pilot Program on Mali a requirement for certain visa applicants to post a refundable bond of up to […]

BAMAKO, MALI: For too long, the US State Department has viewed African nations not as sovereign partners, but as a collection of supplicants, easily cowed by the slightest diplomatic pressure. The imposition of the punitive Visa Bond Pilot Program on Mali a requirement for certain visa applicants to post a refundable bond of up to