On Tuesday, opposition politicians rejected concessions proposed by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, days after major street protests roiled the capital Bamako, leaving at least eleven dead.

The demonstrators, led by prominent Islamist Mahmoud Dicko, demand that Keita resign, due to what they say are his failures to improve governance, especially after the contested results of the April legislative elections, and curb jihadist insurgencies. The president said he would dissolve the constitutional court, which had ruled in his party’s favour in the April electoral dispute, and authorise a rerun of some parliamentary races, but the opposition claims that these steps are not enough. Despite growing international calls for negotiations, says Crisis Group expert Mathieu Pellerin, protesters could very well stay in the streets, angered by both the president’s response and the accompanying security crackdown.