French Soldier Killed in Mali Roadside Bomb

As the UN approves the deployment of peacekeepers to Mali, another French soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive in the country.

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  • Mali:  Sixth French Soldier Killed in Mali

    Radio France Internationale, 30 April 2013

    A French soldier has been killed in the far north of Mali, bringing to six the number of French soldiers killed since the start of the French-led military intervention in January. read more »

French soldiers board an army plane.

  • Africa:  'This is Not An Anti-Terrorist Operation' - UN on Mali

    UN News Service, 25 April 2013

    The Security Council today approved a 12,600-strong United Nations peacekeeping operation to take over from the African-led mission in Mali on 1 July and authorized the blue ... read more »

  • Mali:  UN to Send Peacekeeping Troops to Mali

    Deutsche Welle, 26 April 2013

    The UN Security Council has given its unanimous approval for a Mali peacekeeping force. As French troops pull out, it will be up to UN troops to restore stability in the war-torn ... read more »

  • Mali:  Hunger At Crisis Levels in Northern Mali

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 12 April 2013

    Hunger in Mali has reached crisis levels in the northern Kidal Region and has reached critical levels in Gao and Timbuktu regions, according to food security agencies and the ... read more »

  • Mali:  Chad Begins Withdrawing Troops

    Deutsche Welle, 15 April 2013

    Chad's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to begin withdrawing the country's 2,250 troops from Mali. Soldiers from Chad have played an instrumental role in rooting out Islamists ... read more »

  • Africa:  UN Approves Peacekeeping Force for Mali

    Deutsche Welle, 25 April 2013

    The UN Security Council has unanimously agreed to send a 12,600-member peacekeeping force to Mali starting in July. The force will be taking over for French and African troops ... read more »

  • Mali:  Torture, Beatings and Death for Detained Malians

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 15 April 2013

    Hundreds of northern Malians - many of them ethnic Tuaregs - have been detained by the Malian army since the French military intervention to oust Islamist groups from northern Mali ... read more »

  • Mali:  French Imperialism Moves Deeper Into Mali (analysis)

    Fahamu, 14 February 2013

    Despite French military intervention and claims of success in fighting Islamist militias, the conflict in Mali is getting worse. There is also some evidence of imperialist ... read more »

  • Mali:  France Deploys Special Forces As Terrorism Fears Grow, in Niger, Mali, Back Home

    Moroccan American Center for Policy, 25 January 2013

    France has sent Special Forces to guard mines in Niger which supply most of the uranium for the French nuclear power industry. Back home, the government has increased the terror ... read more »

  • Uganda:  From Rwanda to Mali - France's chequered history in Africa (opinion)

    The Independent, 28 January 2013

    Why the French intervention in Mali? Last week, French daily Le Monde asked this question of André Bourgeot, specialist on Sub-Saharan Africa with France's National Centre ... read more »

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  • ras sideeq
    Apr 26 2013, 10:02

    Here it is Frnace has come into Africa started this impeerial war all for thier colonial ineterest; legalised it by gettiung support from the rest of the NATO allies??? Now there ia African troop pressence they have deemed alright and we now conviniently have enemies??? This is absurd madness of the highest order!!!These troops are not an all inclusive African military defense force that should be set up by the AU WITH SOEVERIEGN POWERS.. THESE TROOPS ARE UN MANDATED NOT ESTABLISHED WITH AFRICAN UNITY IN MIND???? WWHEN IS AFRICA GOING TO OPEN WIDE THIER EYES WE DO NOT NEED ENEMIES IN AFRICA EVERYDAY WE CONTRIBUTE TO THIER ILLIGITIMATE WARS AND COONLFICTS WE STOP CHILDREN FROM LEARNING WE KEEP OUR PEOPLE IN DARKNESS WE LOSE HOPE WE LOSE CONTROL; OF OUR RESOPURCES??? WHEN THERE IS PEACE" THEN THERE IS EMPOWERMENT STABILITY ENABLES US TO RESEARCH, LEARN, TO MANAGE, ANALYSE, CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS OWN AND DISTRIBUTE OUR RESOURCES !!! WITH THE PEOPLE BEING EMPOWERED... THIS LIFE THAT NATO AND THE WEST IS CARVING OUT FOR US' WHILST THEY UNDERMINE UNITY ,WHILST THEY DESPERATELY TRY TO MANIPULATE SABAOTAGE EVERY CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO MAINTAIN PEACE AN UNITY... THE DRC PROBLEM IS BEING EXASERBATED WITH WAR DRUMS INSTEAD OF PEACE.. AGAIN I SAY TO AFRICA TAKE BACK YOUR SOVERIEGNTY REMOVE THE UN FROM AFRICA TRADE WITH THE RESOURCES YOU HAVE BETWEEN YOURSELVES TO ENRICH YOUR OWN LIVES MAKING YOUR OWN PLANS NOT READY MADE PLANS WITH READY MADE ENEMIES.. RMEMBER THIS SO CALLED WAR ON TERROR IS A WESTERN IMAGINED OR CONCIEVED WAR WITH THIER ENEMIES.. THE WAR ON ISLAM IS ALL FOR ISREAL SAKE!!!!!! THEY WANT A STRONG MILITARY ISREAL WITH NUCLEAR POWER TO DOMINATE THE REGION WHILST THEY EMBARK ON ADVETURISM AROUND THE PLANET. CREATING WARS ENEMIES CONFLICST THEY DO NOT SPEND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARES TO FIND THE WROLD IS NOT WHAT THEY WANT IT TO BE.. MOST PEOPLE ARE OF ANCIENT CULTURES WHO FROM TIME MEMORIAL HAS LEARNED THAT WARS IS NOT THE ANSWER THIS WAS WHY THEY SO EASILY TOOK THE TECHNOLGIES THAT WERE ABANDONED MISUSED IT AND CREATED THIS EVIL EMPIRE THAT IS A SCOURGE ON THE PLANET.. THEY COERCE BRIBE MANIPULATE LIE TO HAVE THE WORLD THE WAY THEY WANT IT TO BE.. THEY ARE PERMANENTLY EXCUSED FROM ALL THE EVILS THEY PURSUE ON THE PLANET??? THAT IS SHAMEFUL THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH WONT STAND UNITED AGAINST TYRANNY AUTOCRATS DICTATORS AND AGAINST NUCLEAR BOMBS AND DANGEROUS MATERIALS??? ITS THE DUTY OF ALL ANTIONS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE PEACE PROCCESS. ALL NATIONS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES AND FIND THIER OWN WAY WHAT WE DO NOT NEED IS EXPLOITATION AND THE TOTALLY UNBALANCED WEALTH OF THE WEST AND THE REST OF THE PLANET POOR... THEY HAVE PLAYED GOD LONG ENOUGH.. THEY HAVE NO AUHTOURITY TO DESTROY THIS PLANET THEY CANNOT NUKE THE PLANETAND ALL THE PEOPLE NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY PSOPTURE!!!!.. THIS IS OUR WORLD WE NEED SPACE TO BREATHE TO LEARN TO GROW, EVERYTIME WE HAVE PEACE IN AFRICA WE FIND THE WEST LURKING IN THE BACKGROUND SHATTERING THIS PEACE???? WHY!!!.. THEY HAVE BEEN IN DRC FOR 50 YEARS AND NO PROGRESS WHY THE DRC IS IMAGINABLY THE RICHEST OF ALL AFRICA!!! THEY CONTINUE TO PLUNDER PILLAGE WHILE THEY PORTECT THE MULTI NATIONALS AND ALLOW FOR THE HELPLESS PEOPLE TO TAKE OUT THIER FRUSTRATION ON EACH OTHER .. THEY INTURN RAPE PLUNDER EACH OTHER FOR FOOD AND IMAGINED PAPER MONEY THEY MIGHT HAVE3??? IMAGINE THESE PEOPLE ARE THE WEALTHIEST OF ALL AFRICANS BY RIGHT THEY HAVE EVERYTHING ; WITH WHAT THEY HAVE THEY CAN DIVERSIFY THEY CAN DO IT ALL AND STILL HAVE ENOUGH FOR THIER NEIGHBOURS YET THEY TOIL IN MISERY WITH A UNITED NATIONS THAT SERVES MULLTINATIONALS AND WESTERN INTEREST?? THIS IS NOT ON!!!! WHY ARE WE SENDING MORE WARROIORS TO THE CONGO A PLACE THAT IS RIFE WITH GUNS MILITIAS ROGUE ARMIES UN TROOPS AND WESTERN TROOPS NOTHING BUT BEDLAM WITH ORGANISED CHAOS.. THE MULITNATIONLAS ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THIS CHAOS AS ITS IN PLACE FOR THIER EBENIFIT!!! COME ON AFRICA WHO IS MAKING POLICY FOR AFRICA THE CORRUPT UN OR IS IT GOING TO BE A RIGHTEOUS AFRICA??? THIS IDEA OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS ALL RUBBISH THEY SERVE THE INETEREST OF NATO AND THIER ALLIES.. WE WATCH IN BAHRAIN AS THIS GULF KINGDOM IS BEING RULED BY AUTOCRATS WHILE THE PEOPLE FIGHT AND DIE FOR BEING FREE; THE USA HAS A BASE THIER YET THEY REMAIN BLIND NOT A WORD SPOKEN.. THEY WILL ALWAYS TURN A BLIND EYE WHEN IT COEMS TO THIER INTEREST??? WHAT IS THIER INETERSTE??? THEY STEAL PLUNDER MIS REPRESENT THE TURH FOR THIER OWN ENRICHMENT.. THESE ARE GREEDY NON BENEVOLNET PEOPLE, THEY CARE NOT FOR THE EARTH NOR FOR HUMANITY.. I MUST REMIND HUMANITY THAT EVERYTHING AROUND US IS ALIVE THE UNIVERSE IS ALIVE THE PLANET IS ALIVFE ITNGIVES US FOOD WATER AND IT GIVES US LIFE!!! WE AR DESTROYING LIFE WHEN WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS WONDERFULK EARTH.. THE EARTH IS PART OF THE "ALLMIGHTY GOD"THIS IS HE? WHOM HAS GIVEN LIFE TO ALL WE DONT REALISE IT EVERYTIME WE POLLUT WE DESTROY WE TAKE LIFE WE ARE KILLING OURSELVES.. EVERYTHING WE DO MAINATIN WARS CONFLICTS DESTRUCTION IS HURTING OUR REATOR WHICH WILL NOT E TAKEN LIGHTLY ON THAT DAY!!! WE ARE NOT JUST WILD BEATS WHO CAN DO AS WELIKE??? THERE IS ORDER ON THE PLANET IN THE UNIVERSE AND EVRYBEING THAT IS HAS A FAMILY A PARENT THE ORDER OF LIFE IS BASED ON PARENTAGE. MOTHER FATHER FAMILY UNITY ORDER!!! DISORDER THE BREAKDOWN OF FAMILY IS A WESTERN CONCEIVED IDEOLOGFY PRACTICED TO CREATE SLAVERY VAMPIRISM BLOOD SUCKING EXPLOITATION SLAVERY SELF HATRED SELF DESTRUCTION WE ARE BEING USED AS PUPPETS TO WATCH AS HELPLESS IDOTS AS THEY PLUNDER AND PILLAGE OUR RESOURCES.... THEY DO NTO WANT US TO HAVE UNITY A NATION DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF WILL NOT STAND!!!!!WE ARE BUSY LOOKING FOR INVESTORS WHEN YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO INVEST IN EACH OTHERS DEVELOPMENT YOU JUST WONT SEE THE NEED TO EDUCATE TO ENCOURAGE THE EMPOWERMENT OF SELF.. ASKING WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO GIVE YOU MONEY FOR THIS AND THAT IS NOT BEING FREE TIEING YOURSELVES TO MULTI NATIONALS IS NOT FREE THAT IS STILL SLAVERY EXPLOITATION.. WE NEED OUR FRIENDS TO TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY TO AFRICA BULLD PLANTS THAT MAKES TRACTRORS CARS AIRPLANE PARTS COMPUTERS SHIPS WE CAN ATKE IT FROMTHERE.. WE NEED BIG LABAORATORIES FOR EXPERIMENTS FOR OUR UPCOMMING SVCIENTIST WE NEED ASTRONOUTS PLENTY FO P[ILOTS SHIP CAPTAIS ENGINEERS IN VEVERY CONCEBIEABLE ACTIVITY IN LIFE.. SHOULD WE EMBARK ON THIS UN MISSION OF WARS AND MILITARY UNITS TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT AND MILITARISE AFRICA THEN WE ARE SUCCUMBING TO FAILURE!!!!!!!!