Demonstrators Take Mali's Conflict to French Parliament
Supporters and opponents of the breakaway Tuareg state, in the north calling itself Azawad, took to the streets of Paris in an attempt to win the support of the newly-elected French government.
A supporter holds the Azawad flag.
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Mali: Students Flee Sharia in Northern Schools
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 22 June 2012
Strict Sharia, or Islamic religious laws, imposed by the Islamist rebels controlling vast swathes of northern Mali are driving thousands of students out of schools. Dress codes ... 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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Mali: Terrorists and Uncertainty Flourish in North (analysis)
Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 17 May 2012
There's been no peace in northern Mali since Tuareg rebels took control of the area and declared independence earlier this year. Radical Muslim fighters came in their wake and ... read more »
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Mali: Islamists Burn World Heritage Site in Timbuktu
Radio France Internationale, 7 May 2012
In the northern Malian city, Timbuktu, Ansar Dine Islamist fighters burned the shrine of a local saint on Friday. The mausoleum is classified as part of a World Heritage site by ... read more »
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Mali: Jihadism and Tuareg Nationalism Are Not the Same (opinion)
Fahamu, 19 April 2012
The MNLA is not Jihadist. It is the main group representing the Azawad independence movement and has aims similar to those of other ethnic nationalist groups. read more »
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We are suffering in Africa, even in the Islamic lands, where as the education being used and taught is not up to standard. Lax laws have made our children into psuedo Euros or Americans, and we are neither.
I believe that our brothers who have taken over in the north, mean well and trying to bring Malians back into the education centre it once was. Islamic scholarship is superior if it is implement well. And, we must put a grip on the down slide of our education, since immorality and low education are brother and sisters to each other. Islamic teachings and disciple is needed now and surely of the Amirs in 15th and 16th Centuries could see what Mali has become, certainly they would call for jihad fee sabili to restore morality.