Strategic system
Contested zone
17 published markers, 3 supply systems running through it.
Coverage · Central Sahel
Context, not targeting. A system record names published markers and published operators and states dependencies at the level a published institution does. It carries no facility-level capacity, vulnerability, protection or repair detail; the schema has no field for any of it.
Strategic systems 5 of 9 carry a system record; the rest are derived from the module’s published markers and say so. A record states what the system is, its dated current state, the supply systems and operators that belong to it, and what it depends on — with every dependency marked documented or assessed.
River corridor
Niger River corridor
The river as an axis of movement, trade and contest between Mali and Niger — four markers, no system record yet.
Mining economy
Gold and uranium
Mali's gold belt — roughly 80 per cent of exports and the state's indispensable revenue — and Niger's uranium district, the asset at the centre of the state's dispute with its operator and a tribunal.
Strategic system
Political / command
4 published markers, 5 supply systems running through it.
Transport network
Import corridors
The overland routes from the coast — Dakar, Abidjan, Lomé, Cotonou — that carry the landlocked states' fuel and trade, under a declared blockade in Mali and a closed border for Niger.
Strategic system
Insurgent pressure
8 published markers.
Strategic system
Military logistics
The hubs, corridors and contested towns through which the AES forces and their Russian partners are sustained — seven markers, and the two records that explain them.
Agricultural / food system
Inland Niger delta agriculture
The irrigated rice of the Office du Niger and the grain of the inland delta — three markers, the agriculture exposure object, and no system record yet.
Strategic system
Border region
8 published markers, 3 supply systems running through it.
Evidence and grading
- Documented
- A published source states this relationship.
- Assessed
- Vigil infers this relationship from the records; no source states it directly.
- Structural stub
- A record that establishes a system exists and names it, and carries only what it can support — line, basis, sources, review dates. Detailed research is not done, and the page says so rather than inventing detail.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.