Among those quotes some other remarks are mixed.
a few companies of French troops inserted in January 2013 defeated the Islamist insurgents who were conquering the vastness of Mali.
That may not sound like a large force, but it is huge when compared to the efficient bits of local armies (whose troops are worthless for the most part), so that French interventions have usually been decisive.
In comparison after 7 years of struggle Mali still isn't pacified. While the Tuareg rebellion was quenched, the rest of Al-Qaeda and the local ISIS branch are still at large and causing problems.
A coup could have been countered by the French if they wanted, especially in 2012 when the President got away and was in hiding for weeks, but France did not want to intervene. I would expect further coups in Mali, until the other preconditions for the coups eradicated.