Do you understand that there is no such thing as "illegal" in international "law"? Sovereigns can literally do anything, and everything, and absolutely everythi

Do you understand that there is no such thing as "illegal" in international "law"? Sovereigns can literally do anything, and everything, and absolutely everything they want. So it is "right", maybe not ethically, but certainly legally. "The Government of Mali" does not report to anyone [1], so there is no institution to rule this as wrong, or a human process that can overrule the decision. Other sovereigns -- hopefully one of them counts you as a citizen and involves you in its processes through democracy -- can simply boycott, or embargo them, or dissuade them through diplomacy, or armed forces. Unless you understand this, you don't have a good model of what "the Government of Mali" means, and thus it doesn't make sense to make business with "the Government of Mali". [1] Well, except maybe to the people of Mali, or the constitution of Mali, but that's an internal "implementation detail" that's abstracted away from you, unless you're a citizen of Mali.