The War for Northern Mali
AllAfrica's news partners analyse the crisis in Mali, where both African and Western forces have embarked on a war to regain control of the vast north of the country from rebel groups.
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Some of Mali neighbours have started sending in military help to aid ongoing operations against rebels. Nigerian fighter jets are expected to back French air strikes. Read more »
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The defence headquarters will commence airlifting soldiers deployed to Mali for peacekeeping operations. Read more »
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Human Rights Must be a Priority in Mali, Says Amnesty
- Publisher:
- Amnesty International
- Publication Date:
- 17 January 2013
The human rights group, Amnesty International, says it has documented crimes under international law committed by all the parties to the conflict in ... see more »
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Clashes between the army, supported by France, and Al-Qaeda-linked groups in the north have resulted in hundreds of people being forced from their homes to safer parts of Mali, and ... Read more »
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French soldiers have engaged in their first ground combat with Islamist fighters after days of air strikes, as African troops arrive in Bamako. Read more »
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U.S. Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta has supported France's airstrikes against rebels in northern Mali, saying the U.S. government is also readying plans for assistance in the ... Read more »
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Born and grew up in West Africa and very proud to live and study in the region till in the late 80s when the war began in Liberia. The West African coast is green and has verse potentials. These landlocked West Africa nations must be thouroughly reexamine as they also gave passage to Chalse Tailor and Foday Sankoh to come and distabilise our region and tamper with our prides and dignities as human beings. I can remeber lot of Bokinabes were involved in the fighting in both Liberia and Sierra Leone and their sponsors are already known by West Africans. For France or whosoever to succeed in our region they have to empower our regional security forces and help to build a system that can serve as ingredients to peace and stability. This is not only good for the region but for the world at large.
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" THIS ARTICLE WANTS TO SOUND LIKE IT MAKES SENSE BUT IT STILL LACKS??? THE ARGUMENT THAT THIS PRESIDENT WHO WE KNOW TO BE OVER HIS LEGAL TENNANCY AS PRESIDENT??? ' SO CONVENIENTLY CALLED FOR BIG IMPERIALIST FRANCE 'WHO HAS BEEN BEGGING FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION FRROM DAY ONE!!!!!!! ! " SO WITH THE AUTHORS CLEAR PATH WE SEE THAT THIS WAS AMATCH MADE FOR TWO' ONE WANTS TO STAY AS PUPPET LEADER; AS HIS FREIND IN IVORY COAST WHO IS ALSO A FRENCH PUPPET ..THIS MALIAN WAS PREPAREED TO SELL OUT THE PEOPLE SO THE FRENCH CAN MAINATIN THIER FOOTHOLD ON THE RSOUOURCES IN WEST AFRICA!!!." THIS IS NO CONSCIOUS MIND RENDERING LOVE OF HUMANITY IN THISDECISION BY FRANCE"!!!!!. THEY HAVE TROOPS IN IVORY COAST, IT WAS HANDY THEY ARE THERE ,AS THE SOLE IVORIAN ARMY!! SO IT WAS NOT HARD FOR THEM TO BE TRANSFERED TO MALI"." AFRICA NEEDS TO ALLOW FRANCE TO LIVE OUT ITS DREAM;' I WOULD ASK THE REST OF THE FRANCOFONE NATIONS TO ASK FOR TECHNOLOGY AND MILLIONS OF FRANCS FROM THE MONIES YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING TO FARNCE FOR NOTHING. "I WOULD SUGGEST THAT AFRICA (AU)ALLOWS THIS ONE TO PLAY OUT IN FARNCES DESIRE FOR WAR!!!.FRANCE HAS STARTLED THE EARTH WITH THIS SUDDEN MOVE TO GO AGAINST THE IDEA THAT WE MUST NOT USE WAR IN EVERY SCENARIO POSSIBLE AS A WAY OF PREVENTION OR INTERVENTION'.. THIS DECISION BY FRANCE MUST BE A TOTTAL FRENCH AND MALIAN OPERATION". THERE IS NO NEED FOR NIGERIA OR ANY OTHER SOLDIER TO DIE FOR FRENCH INETEREST???? NO NEED AT ALL! THIS IS CLEARLY ABOUT RESOURCE IF FARNCE WAS NOT SO OBVIOUS; THE PROBLEM IS GETTING CLOSE TO FARNCE AS MALI IS VERY CLOSE TO FARNCE IN PROXIMITY""... THESE WORDS ARE FROM HOLLANDE, WHO WAS HE SPEAKING TO FIRST GRADERS CHILDREN THAT NEVER STUDIED A MAP OR KNOWS GEOGRAPHY??? THIS STATEMENT WAS AN INSULT TO PEOPLE WITH ALITTLE BIT OF BRAINS!!!!!!. AS AFRICANS ESPECIALLY WEST AFRICANS I KNOW THAT WE HAVE AQ VERY ILLFATED HISTORY WITH EUROPE BUT WE MUST START TO TRULLY LOOK INTO ORU SOULS AND SEE IF IT IS TRUE THAT WE SHOULD GIVE OUR HEARTS MINDS SOULS TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT WALKED BREATHED CRIED ATE FOOOD SO WE PRESUME THAT HE WENT TO THE TOILET!!!! DO YOU IMAGINE THAT HE WHO CREATED US IS AS FRAIL AS THOSE WHOM HE CREATED ??? DO YOU IMAGINE YOUR LORD TO BE ONE THAT SITS ON THE TOILET? OR OEN THAT PARTAKES IN DRINKING SOME OF THE WORLDS MOST POTENT WINE??? DRINKING ALV COHOL AS WAS WRITTEN BY A COMMENTER!!!. WHY IS IT THAT WE SEEM TO THINK THAT BECAUSE WHUITE MEN WHO DO NOT HAVE YOUR BEST INETERST AT HEART THEY WERE THE RULERS OF MALI FOR CENTURIES AND ALL THEY DID WAS STEAL EXPLOIT PLUNDER POILLAGE TORTURE KIDNAP ENSLAVE CHILD MOLEST RAPE MURDER AND THEY STILL EXTTORT THIER FORMER COLONIES???? HOW OR WHEN DID THEY BECOME SO ATTACHED TO YOU THAT THEY ENVER WHILE THEY RULED MADE SURE THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO LOOK AFTER YOUR RESOURCES THAT THERE WOULD BE A FIRM INTERNAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WOULD HAVE EMULATED THE GREAT FRENCH EMPIRE??? WHY HAVE THEY CONTINUED TO EXPLOIT EXTORT MALAINMS WHY AHVE THEY REFUSED TO EVEN ADMIT THAT THEY WERE WRONG TO ENSLAVE THE AFRICAN. THERE IS NO BOOK ON THE PLANET THAT IS OF THE "MOST HIGH GOD" OR ANY OF HIS MESSENGERS THAT VAGUELY OR EVEN REMOTELY SUGGEST THAT MAN SHOULD ENSLAVE OR OPPRESS MAN"!!!!!! THERE IS NO SUCH BOOK"!!!! THESE WRITINSG ARE FROM FOOLS LIARS PERVERTERS OF TRUTH; THOSE OF EUROEPANS WHO TOOK THE BOOKS THEY FOUND ESCAVATED STOLE REWROTE THEM TO SUIT THIER HEGEMONIST AGENDAS!!!!! IT IS TRULY TIME OFR US TO WAKE UP!!! THERE IS NO BOOK ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT WERE FOUND IN AFRICA THAT DENOTES THAT THE BLACK MAN WAS BORN TO BE ENSLAVED"!!!!!!! THIS IS UTTER FOOLISHNMESS WE ARE EVEN BEL;IEVING THAT WE ARE THE SON THAT NOAH CURSED??? IF THAT WERE THE CASE THE SEMETICS THE HAMITCS AND ALL OTHER SONS FO NOAH WERE AT THAT TIEM ALL BLACK!!! YES MY INTELLECTUAL BROTHERS , SCIENCE HAS PROVEN AND HAS WITHOUT DOUBT PROVEN TO YOU THAT THE ONLY PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET THAT IS ABLE TO PRDUCE ANOTHER HUIAMN BEING COMPLETLY OPPOSST OF HIMSELF IS THE BLACK MAN WHO IS YOU!!!!!!!! ANY CHIDL BORN WITHOUT MELANIN IS BORN WHITE WITH MOOST TIMES BLUE EYES AND BLOND HAIR!!!... THIS WHITE NOSH COULD NTO PRODUCE A SON NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIED THAT WAS BLACK TIGHT CURLY WOOLY HAIR AND MOST OF ALL PRODUCE MELANIN IN HIS GENES AND DNA"!!!!. NO WHITE SUPERIOR BEING THAT YOU KNOW CAN DEFEAT THSI ARGUMENT AND REPRODUCE THIS EVENT!!!!!!! IT IS NOT POSSIBLE IN THIS LIFE TIEM OR THE NEXT. WHITES AHVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THSI FOR YEARS AND HAS BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL THIS CODE IN THE DNA IS A HISTORY MARKER;" THIS DELETES ALL THIER ARGUMENTS OF SUPERIRORITY THAT NOAH WAS WHITE JESUS MOSES WHOM WERE ALL OF NUBIAN MAKE UP , THIS PUTS ALL THE BLACK RACE IN IRUSALEM AS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL!!!! ALL THAT OTHER RUBBISH THAT YOU WANT TO RELY ON ESPECIALLY IN NIGERIA IS JUST FOOL GOLD; " ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD" . THE SEMETIC ARGUMENT IS A FOOLS ARGUMEMNT;' WHENEVEVR I HEAR WHITES REALLY BELIEVING ALL THE LIES THEY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT AS FAR AS EVEN IMPERSONATING OTHERS AND(ZIONIST ISRAEL) "DEPRIVING THE RIGHTEOUSS PEOPLE OF THE EARTH SO MUCH' CAUSING THEM TO LIVE IN POVERTY DEGREDATION' OPPRRESSING THEM IN SO MANY CLEVER WAYS> THIER ARGUMENST MAKE THEM NON AN VOID". THEY ARE LIEARS MALI IS ALSO A MUSLIM COUNTRY BY VIRTUE OF POPULATION IT HURST ME ALSO TO SEE THESE SLAFIST WHO COME INTO AFRICA AND DESTROY AND THINK THEY KNOW MORE THAN BLACKS AS THEY TOO ARE FOLLOWERS OF THESE LIES. WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT THESE ARE THE EUROPEANS ALLIES IT SI THESE SAME ONES WHO THEY USED TO LURE US INTO SLAVERY OPENLLY SELLING US INTO SLAVERY IOT WAS THEY WHO CAME TO EUROPE AND COLLAPSED THE REIGN OF THE MOORS. LET US GET THIS THING RIGHT THESE SALAFIST ARE WHOM OVERTHREW GAFDAFFI THEY ARE THE MILIOTIAS THAT ARE IN LIBYA THEY ARE WHOM MAKES LIBYA UNGOVERNABLE THESE ARMS THEY POSSESS WAS GIVEN TO THEM BY FRANCE AND THE USA. THESE ARE THE SAME GUYS WHOM THEY HAVE CONTRACTED TO OVERTHROW THE SYRIAN REGIME !!THEY ARE STILL GETTING GUNS AND ARE STILL THIER PARTNERS!!!!???? SO HOW COULD THEY BE YOUR DEFENDERS WHEN THEY ARE HAVING A SQUABLLE WITH THIER ALLY ???? YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!!!!!IF THEY STOPPE DFIGHTING THE SYRAINS AND LEFT TODAY SYRIA WOULD RETURN TO ASSAD AND SHOULD THEY JOIN THEIR BROTHERS IN BLOOD IN MALI THE WEST WOULD HAVE PROBLEMS!!!. MY SUGGESTION TO ALL AFRICA IS TO STAY OUT OF THIS CONVENIENT CONFLICT WHERE TWO FREINDS ARE HAVING IT OUT!!!!!!!. "DO NOT BELIEVE ME LOOK AT THE HISTORY! THESE ARE THEY WHO TURNED OVER GADAFFI MURDER AND ALL"!!!!!! THESE ARE THEY WHO THINK THIER NEW WESTERN BRAND OF ISLAM WITH ALL ITS WESTERN BIBLICAL GLORY AND ALL ITS TALES OF BIRTH FOR WHOM, WHEN,AN WHERE ARE ISLAMIC FACTS!!!... THESE ARE MOSTLY TALL TALES COOBERATED WITH SCHOLLARS IN THE MID AGES WHO REWROTE GENUINE BOOKS ;THE TALMUD JEWISH BIBLE THE QUARAAN THE HOLY BIBLE THESE ARE WORKS OF EUROPEAN SCHOLLARS SUCH AS SHAKESPEARE WHO LEARNED HIS CRAFT FROM READING WRITINGS OF THE MOORS; WHILST IN EUROPE AND THOSE BLACK KNIGHTS THAT CAME TO THE UK EARLY IN THIER HISTORY .. THIS IS NOT A LESSON IN HSITORY THIS IS A LESSON IN OPENING YOUR EYES WIDELY"!!!!!!!!! DO NOT EB APAWN OFR THIS CAUSE YES THESE FOOLS WHO SAY THEY ARE ISLAMIST ARE FOOLS BUT SHOULD WE GUAGE OUR INTELLECT OF THEIR BEHAVIOURS ?? OR SHOULD WE LOOK AT THE COMPONENET OF WHAT IS GOING TO BE A WESTERN OCCUPATION IN WEST AFRICA!!!. THE NIGERIANS CANT SEE THEY ARE ALWAYS GETTING CAUGHT WITH BRIBE MONEY THEY ARE JUST TOO CORRUPT THEY LOSE FOCUS!!!."' ECOWAS IS NOTHING BUT A COMPLETE FAILURE; ". " THE FRENCH AND THE AMEICANS BOUGHT OUT WEST AFRICA UNDER THE FEET OF THE AFRICANSFOR PEANUTS; ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLY WERE DRIVEN OUT AS WE SAW IN REALITY IN COTE d' IVOIRE"!!!!. IS THERE FACT IN MY STATEMENTS THEN WAKE UP!!!!!!!!! REWSOURCES IS THE PRIME MOTIVATER BY THE W EUROPEANS AS THEY ARE USING THIS TO SIDE STEP THIER OWN POLITICAL FAILURES;;' SOS', NOW THIER ALLIES IS ON THIEIR DOOR STEP CIRCLING THE WAGONS RADY TO POUNCE. WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW IS THE WEST NATO GEARING UP TO OCCUPy MALI WITH THIS NEW PRESDIENT'; WHO WILL CONTINUE TO SELL OUT THE MALIANS". THE UK GOVERNMENT MEETINGS TODAY WAS REFOCUSED TO PAY ATTENTION TO SUPPPoRT THE FRENCH IN MALI; SO THEY ARE EXPECTED SOON.. THE AMERICANS ARE NEARLY THERE ALREADY, AS MURIATANIA HAS GIVEN THEM BASES TO FLY DRONES ETC . NOW THEY WANT TO USE THE SAHEL AS A KILLING GROUNDFS!!!! AFRICANS ARE SLEEP WALKING BACK INTO SUBMISSION And slavery!!!!!! certainly we must have visioanries in west africa we need to get rid of this old guard who are so brain washed they can only hear dollar signs in thier sleep!!!! born fools!!!!!!!!
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