LE JOURNAL DU MALI (Mali) BAMAKO – Want to try and guess which part of the world has a projected growth rate of 6% for 2012? South Asia? South America? Wrong – It’s Africa! “Africa is on the brink of a major transformation,” declares Elsie Kanza, World Economic Forum director for Africa. So long associated […]
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The nomadic Tuareg people had hoped for more freedom in what is now a disintegrating situation in the West African nation of Mali. Islamic radicals have taken advantage of a power vacuum to exert their authority. A look up close with Tuareg rebels.
Exiled in neighboring Mauritania, this 49-year-old exiled firebrand and leader of the Tuareg insurgency calls on the West to accept their demands for independence from Mali, and to get involved in fighting off Islamists in her homeland.
Following the March 22 coup that ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré, the north of Mali is in the hands of a Tuareg rebellion. It is a rolling series of events that has leaders across the region worrying about similar threats.