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DAKAR, Senegal — Chad’s military said Saturday that its soldiers in Mali had killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the mastermind of the January seizure of an Algerian gas plant that left at least 37 foreign hostages dead. Mr. Belmokhtar’s death was announced … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, Belmokhtar, Chad, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Osama bin Laden, United States
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Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Ansaru has proved to be a formidable threat during its short existence, using dynamite to penetrate heavily-fortified compounds and taking foreigners hostage. Ansaru was formed last January, though it rose to prominence only about six months … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansaru, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Nigerians
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In Mali, the French have been the margin between civilization and barbarism. Reading accounts of France’s struggles to deploy a few thousand troops to its former colony of Mali, we found ourselves wondering: Whatever happened to the French Foreign Legion? … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, France, IndepthAfrica, Kidal, Mali, Niger, Sahel, Timbuktu
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Jeremy Keenan On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution asking Mali’s government to draw up plans for a military mission to re-establish control over the northern part of Mali, an area … read more »
By Christina Hellmich Is Al-Qaeda about to bring terrorism to Europe’s backyard in North Africa? The intervention of French military forces in Mali and the apparent reprisals in the form of the hostage crisis at the In Amenas gas processing … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, AQIM, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Belmokhtar, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Osama bin Laden
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What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the west. The only principled position to adopt therefore is the rejection of both, for the self-determination and sovereignty of the peoples. … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Libya, Mali, mali news, malian news, Saudi Arabia, United States
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Dore Gold long after the French offensive against African jihadists in Mali got underway, a leader of one of the offshoots of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) declared that his organization would “strike at the heart of France.” AQIM … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Libya, Mali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Qaida, Algeria, AQIM, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Mali, North Africa
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President Obama’s inauguration finally trumped, if only temporarily, the bad news coming out of Mali and Algeria. From the front pages of U.S. newspapers, Americans have been getting a crash course in North Africa’s desolate Sahel region and our fight … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, Algeria news, Bamako, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, mali news, Sahel, United States
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By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Newspapers The war rages about cities with names such as Bamako and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa. The combatants include a nomadic Berber people known as Tuareg, … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Benghazi, French Foreign Legion, IndepthAfrica, Maghreb, Mali, mali news, malian news, Osama bin Laden, United States
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By Daniel Greenfield France took the lead in pushing for military intervention to overthrow Gaddafi. Now it’s fighting Islamists, many of them from Libya, armed with weapons that France airdropped to them, that Qatar smuggled to them or weapons from … read more »
Expert says France fights to protect Europe’s ‘backyard’ Malian soldiers, helped by French troops, move a broken helicopter out a hangar to make room for more incoming troops at Bamako’s airport. The French military action in Mali serves not only … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Bamako, Economic Community of West African States, France, france mali, French Armed Forces, le mali, Mali, mali france, mali guerre, mali intervention, mali news, West Africa
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas field partly operated by BP in southern Algeria early Wednesday, killing two foreigners and holding possibly dozens of others, including Americans, hostage while surrounded by Algerian forces. A … read more »
By Maha Hosain Aziz For 20 years, Mali has been considered a democratic model in West Africa, praised for its relative economic growth and social stability. But in 2012, much of this progress was squandered by a military coup, dismissal … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Burkina Faso, Cheick Modibo Diarra, France, Haile Selassie I, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, West Africa
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On 21 December the UN Security Council approved sending an African-led intervention force to help Mali’s army reconquer the north of the country from Islamist militants. With ECOWAS and the army warily preparing an offensive, the country is now split. by … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Amadou Toumani Touré, Bamako, Cheick Modibo Diarra, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, IndepthAfrica, Mali, United States
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On December 25 Moroccan Ministry of Interior issued a communique announcing that Moroccan security services have broken up a six-member cell that recruited young Moroccans embracing with jihadist thought. According to the statement, the new recruits were sent to the … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Moroccan people, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, United States
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KANO, Nigeria — The radical Islamist group Ansaru on Sunday claimed the recent kidnapping of a French citizen in northern Nigeria, citing France’s push for military intervention in Mali as a justification. Ansaru “announces to the world, especially the French … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram, France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Nigeria, Nigeria Islamist group, Vergnet
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Morocco welcomed the historic decision of the UN Security Council that has unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the deployment of an international force in Mali to restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. “This is a landmark not … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Economic Community of West African States, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Morocco, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
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The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved sending an African-led intervention force to help Mali’s army reconquer much of the country from Islamist militants. The 15-member council gave the force an initial one year mandate to use “all necessary … read more »
(IRIN) – Over 700,000 people could be displaced if military intervention goes ahead next year in northern Mali, according to preliminary estimates by humanitarian agencies, who stress that the numbers are just approximations. This includes some 300,000 internally displaced Malians … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Burkina Faso, Economic Community of West African States, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Sahel, United States, West Africa
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When most Americans think of al Qaeda, they don’t think of Africa. But they should, especially considering a country called Mali, where Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies are attempting to build an Islamist state. One the … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansar Dine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, United Nations, United States, West Africa
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THE REPORTS OUT of northern Mali are more appalling by the day. A vast, arid swath of Africa has fallen under the control of radical Islamists who are imposing a strict form of sharia and building a new stronghold for … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Economic Community of West African States, France, Hillary Rodham Clinton, indelthafrica, Indepth Africa Magazine, Islamism, Mali
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Sudarsan Raghavan and Edward Cody,independent.co.uk The next war against terrorism is taking shape in this West African country, as African nations backed by the United States and France are readying a force to recapture Mali’s north from extremists linked to … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, Economic Community of West African States, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Somalia, United States, West Africa
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Johnnie Carson Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs As Prepared Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs Washington, DC December 5, 2012 Thank you very much Chairman Coons and Members of the Committee for the … read more »
YOU probably haven’t given much thought to the problems in Mali, but UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has, and his advice on military intervention in the West African country could be summed up in two words: forget it. Although, being a … read more »
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Ban Ki-moon, Economic Community of West African States, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, United States, West Africa
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(Reuters) – Islamist gunmen and rival separatist rebels fought a gunbattle in the east of Mali on Friday, both groups said, the first clash between them for months. The exchange of fire between al Qaeda-linked MUJWA and secular independence-seeking MNLA … read more »
In Mali, Ansar Dine, one of the armed Islamist groups occupying northern Mali, said Wednesday it was no longer seeking to impose strict sharia law across the entire country, but still wanted to keep it in its stronghold of Kidal, … read more »
By Alan Boswell / Mopti, Mali, world.time.com APA bus carrying passengers from Gao in northern Mali to the capital, Bamako, makes a stop in the town of Mopti on Sept. 27, 2012 Even as Mali split apart this spring in … read more »
BY THE end of this month an array of Western and African governments and regional bodies is supposed, according to a resolution passed unanimously last month in the UN Security Council, to have drawn up a detailed military plan to … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, Economic Community of West African States, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, United States
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November 8, 2012 by benim
(AP) — War in northern Mali is inevitable, even if some militants there are now disavowing extremism, the foreign affairs minister of neighboring Burkina Faso said Thursday. Djibril Bassole said Ansar Dine’s recent willingness to engage in dialogue with the … read more »
As West Africa’s military intervention looms to end the crisis in Mali, Burkina Faso yesterday led efforts to persuade Ansar Dine, one of the armed Islamist groups controlling northern part of the country, to cut ties with Al-Qaeda. Ansar Dine … read more »
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