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French UN envoy: Mali peacekeeping force months away

French UN envoy: Mali peacekeeping force months away
02/28/2013 | Sahel
France, which is battling Islamist militants in Mali, will not formally propose setting up a UN peacekeeping force to take over until at least April, the French UN ambassador said Wednesday. France sent troops to Mali in January to halt an Islamist advance on the capital and force rebels out of...
AFISMA, Ban Ki -moon, Dioncounda Traore, Gerard Araud, Mali, UN

US sets sanctions on rebel leader in northern Mali

US sets sanctions on rebel leader in northern Mali
02/28/2013 | Sahel
Washington - The Obama administration imposed sanctions Tuesday on an Islamic extremist whose group seized much of northern Mali last year and prompted a French military intervention. The State Department designated Iyad Ag Ghali, head of Ansar Dine, a global terrorist. The action blocks any assets...
Ansar Dine, French military, Mali

U.N. Security Council asks for report on possible Mali peacekeepers

U.N. Security Council asks for report on possible Mali peacekeepers
02/28/2013 | Sahel
The U.N. Security Council will ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report by the end of March on the possibility of creating a peacekeeping force for Mali, French U.N. envoy Gerard Araud said on Wednesday. France began a military offensive last month to drive out Islamist fighters, who had...
AFISMA, France, Gerard Araud, Mali, Security Council, Tuareg, UN

Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices

Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices
02/25/2013 | Chronicles I Debates
When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the French army in the West African nation, few of the 50,000 Niger-based refugees are ready to leave for home just yet....
Aminata, Mali, MJAWA, refugees

Five killed in Islamist car bomb attacks in north Mali

Five killed in Islamist car bomb attacks in north Mali
02/22/2013 | Sahel
Five people were killed in a remote Malian town on Friday in car bomb attacks by Islamists on Tuareg MNLA rebels with close links to French forces, a spokesman for the Tuareg fighters said. Violence in northern Mali underscores the risk of French and African forces becoming entangled in a messy...
Ansar Dine, AQIM, car bomb, Gao, Khalil, Kidal, Mali, MNLA, Mujao

France, the main target of the Islamists in the Sahel

France, the main target of the Islamists in the Sahel
02/21/2013 | Sahel
The risk of abduction of nationals did not start with the operation in Mali. Since 2005, AQIM has designated France as its main enemy. Five French hostages are currently being held in the Sahel. A few hours after the kidnapping of seven French in northern Cameroon, it was still too early to tell...
Abdelmalek Droukdel, AQIM, Cameroon, France, Gao, hostages, Mali, Mujao

US legislators in Mali on fact-finding mission

US legislators in Mali on fact-finding mission
02/18/2013 | Sahel
A delegation of U.S. lawmakers met with military officials in Mali's capital on Monday, and urged caution as the French-led military intervention to wrest back control of the country's north from the al-Qaida fighters entered its fifth week. French President Francois Hollande unilaterally launched...
Mali, Senator Chris Coons, US Congress

French, Malian forces take control of Bourem

French, Malian forces take control of Bourem
02/18/2013 | Sahel
Hundreds of French and Malian soldiers have retaken the jihadist stronghold of Bourem, a town where many radical Islamic fighters were believed to have fled, officials and witnesses said Sunday. Militants launched two suicide attacks last week on a checkpoint leading into Gao on the road from...
Bourem, French, Gao, Mali, Malian, Troops

Mali sets 7 July presidential election date, says minister

Mali sets 7 July presidential election date, says minister
02/16/2013 | Sahel
Legislative elections will follow on 21 July, along with a presidential run-off if required."We will organise the elections throughout the national territory in order to reunite the minds of Malians, reunite their hearts, and to enable Mali to remain one and indivisible," Territorial Administration...
Mali, presidential elections, refufees, UN

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