Foreign travel is the first thing that comes to mind when Malian lettuce farmer Moussa Samake thinks about President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

Nicknamed “the carrier pigeon” for his frequent trips abroad, Keita, 73, is expected to seek re-election in July after a five-year term marred by growing insecurity in the landlocked West African nation. His failure to halt a steady rise in deadly jihadist attacks has left many Malians disillusioned and the region at risk of further instability.

“Frankly, I don’t see what good he has done,” Samake, 33, said as he sat in the shade of a tree, drinking tea with friends in the capital, Bamako. “He said he would stabilize and pacify our country. There’s been none of that. I only see that he travels abroad all the time.”

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