There was no warning. With the absence of UN peacekeepers or a state presence, the collapse of the peace deal may provide safe havens for militant groups to expand their control across northern and central Mali,” said Mucahid Durmaz, senior analyst at the risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft. We are farmers not townspeople, and it’s a time when we need to be in our fields if we are going to have a harvest in a few months,” Kené said