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Mali: Nation in Confusion as President Returns
ISS, 1 August 2012
Upon his return from Paris, where he spent two months recovering from the mob attacks that took place in the presidential palace on 21 May 2012, Mali's Interim President Dioncounda… Read more »
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Mali: West Africa Lukewarm on French Intervention
RFI, 29 July 2012
West African countries have given an unenthusiastic response to Laurent Fabius's calls to take part in a military intervention in Mali during the French foreign affairs minister's… Read more »
Mali: Confusion as President Returns - Analysis
In a recent address to the nation, Mali's Interim President Dioncounda Traore laid out a political stabilisation plan that would allow contributions from both domestic actors and regional authorities.
A delegation of Ansar Dine, the Islamist group which controls the north of Mali along with other groups, meets President Blaise Comporare of Burkiina Faso
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Mali: Mali Refers Crimes Perpetrated in the North to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
FIDH, 19 July 2012
FIDH and its member organisation in Mali, the Malian Association for Human Rights (AMDH), welcome the referral made by government of Mali to the Prosecutor of the International… Read more »
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West Africa: Is Democracy Under Threat in West Africa?
Africa Renewal, 1 August 2012
In May, Said Djinnit, head of the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA), briefed Security Council members on what he saw as a disquieting trend in West Africa. Read more »
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Mali: Terrorizing the North, Silencing the South
RNW Africa, 18 July 2012
RNW's Malian network representative Moulaye Touhami Haidara is worried about his country - in all directions. While his compatriots in the north are being forcefully subjected to… Read more »
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Mali: Avoiding Escalation
Crisis Group, 18 July 2012
In a little more than two months, Mali's political regime has been demolished. An armed rebellion launched on 17 January 2012 expelled the army from the north while a coup deposed… Read more »
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West Africa: Crisis in the Sahel - After Mali What Next?
African Arguments, 16 July 2012
Over the last few years a crisis has been brewing in the whole of the Sahel, not only in Mali. All the ingredients for an explosion where there: poorly or ungoverned vast… Read more »
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West Africa: Mali and West Africa's Difficult Future
Daily Trust, 9 July 2012
The coup d'état of 21st March 2012 by middle ranking army officers In Mali has created a serious crisis that neither ECOWAS nor the African Union is sure of how to handle… Read more »
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Mali: West African Leaders Call for War Crimes Probe in North
RFI, 8 July 2012
The top Ecowas mediator, Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore, told the meeting of politicians, religious and trade union leaders that a new government must "confront the… Read more »
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Mali: Intervention Strategy Must Start in South
This is Africa, 4 July 2012
Mali's post-coup transition in the South and the separatist rebellion in the North are two distinct but interrelated crises. Neither can be ignored. But the current planned… Read more »
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Tunisia: Mali Islamists Destroy More Holy Timbuktu Sites
Tunis Afrique Presse, 1 July 2012
Islamist militants, swinging pick-axes and shouting God's praise, destroyed ancient tombs of Muslim saints in Mali's fabled city of Timbuktu on Saturday, sparking international… Read more »
