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Mali: Junta-Ecowas Agreement Is Likely, Lowering Sanctions Risks (analysis)
African Arguments, 1 June 2012
On 23 May, acting president Dioncounda Traore travelled to France for treatment of injuries sustained during demonstrations by pro-junta civilians and political parties two days ... read more »
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Mali: Calls Mount for U.S. Intervention
Inter Press Service, 31 May 2012
The ambassador of Niger to the United States, Maman Sidikou, on Thursday called on the U.S. to step up military collaboration with African countries to support a potential ... read more »
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West Africa: Remove This Junta (editorial)
Leadership, 3 June 2012
On May 21, the shaky transition to democratic rule in the Republic of Mali received a further black eye when certain "unknown" protesters stormed the Presidential Palace in that ... read more »
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Niger: Food Crisis, Refugee Crisis Hits Locals
International Committee of the Red Cross, 1 June 2012
Already hard hit by a poor growing season in 2011-2012, with rain at the wrong time and in all the wrong places, the population of North Tillabéry in Niger now has to share ... read more »
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Mali: Tuareg Separatists, Salafists Forge Alliance
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 30 May 2012
Two months after taking the northern strongholds of Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal, Mali's rival rebel movements have supposedly put aside ideological, religious and cultural differences ... read more »
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Nigeria: Tuareg-Islamist Unity Bid in North Mali Unravels
This Day, 29 May 2012
Plans for Tuareg rebels and hardline Islamist group Ansar Dine to join forces and proclaim an Islamic state in northern Mali have collapsed due to fundamental differences, the two ... read more »
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West Africa: ECOWAS Rejects Northern Mali Secession
Daily Trust, 30 May 2012
The ECOWAS commission has condemned an attempt to create an Islamic State of Azawad in the occupied northern territory of Mali, following the merger of the rebel National Movement ... read more »
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West Africa: Peace Making Role of West African Trade Bloc (analysis)
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 31 May 2012
With a string of political crises in West Africa over the past few months it has been a busy time for mediators of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has ... read more »
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Indeed, there is not other credible perspective than the removal of the junta. Yet and interestlingly enough, it is still out there simply because those in charge of mediating on behalf of the ECOWAS Blaise Compaoré and his foreign minister Djibril Bassolé have devised a ploy aimed at keeping it in power!Yeah, nothing less than that! The question that immediatly pops up of course is why. Why? Indeed...