Tag Archives: France
By Gregory R. Copley The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so. Timboctou, almost a year in the hands of militants, had fallen to French and Malian forces by January 29, 2013. … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Article, Mali, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Algeria, Aubrey McClendon, Bamako, Boko Haram, Economic Community of West African States, France, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, lagos nigeria, Mali, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria newspaper, nigeria time, online nigeria
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(Reuters) – France plans to begin pulling troops out of Mali from March and will focus its operations on flushing out Islamist rebels in the north of the country, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday. “We will continue to … read more »
Amit Singh The refusal to prop up President Francois Bozize signals a shift in foreign policy, despite military action in Mali. When France received requests from two of its former African colonies to intervene in their domestic conflicts these past … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Bangui, Central African Republic, France, François Bozizé, François Hollande, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Crisis Group, Mali
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Orquera orchestrates repeats Italy’s flaying of faltering France Italy 23 France 18 Forwards Sergio Parisse and Martin Castrogiovanni scored a try each as Italy dealt a massive blow to French Six Nations hopes. Just as two years ago, when Italy … read more »
Mali, Morocco and France are working hand in hand to defend the integrity and sovereignty of Mali, said the French and Malian ambassadors in Rabat. “Mali, France and Morocco have continued to work together in international fora to defend the … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, Morocco, North Africa
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Tagged Addis Ababa, France, French Army, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Maghreb, Mali, Morocco, Sahel, United Nations Security Council
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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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TIMBUKTU, Mali — Zahby Ould Ibrahim’s general store was looted to the studs this week. The horde that descended upon it took not just the shop’s stock of pots, pans and bedding but the electric sockets, the light bulbs and … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Dioncounda Traoré, France, François Hollande, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Timbuktu, Tuareg, Tuareg people
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PAUL ROGERS The combination of western advance and rebel retreat in northern Mali echoes the initial phase of the anti-Taliban campaign in Afghanistan. Britain’s upgraded military commitment makes the parallel even more acute. France’s military operation to take control of … read more »
Two passenger trains packed with school kids and rush-hour commuters collided near the South Africa capital Pretoria on Thursday, injuring up to 300 people, medics said. The accident took place before 8am when a commuter train heading from the suburbs … read more »
Posted in South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Alstom, commuter train crash, Emergency service, France, Johannesburg, Medical state, Pretoria, pretoria commuter train crash, South Africa, Train
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A press release sent from my friend Joe Mirabella at All Out: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 30, 2013 Cameroonian President Paul Biya said in Paris on Wednesday that minds in the country are evolving on the subject of gay people. … read more »
Posted in Cameroon, Central Africa, Press Releases
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Tagged Bailey, Cameroon, France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Paris, Paul Biya, Roger Jean-Claude Mbede, Yaoundé
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Since early 2012, a violent conflict has been brewing in Mali, one that has forced the international community to consider whether or not this North African country is another Afghanistan in the making. The conflict, fought primarily between the government … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Ansar Dine, Bamako, Economic Community of West African States, France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, mali news, malian news, Tuareg people, West Africa
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BAMAKO — French air strikes destroyed the home of the leader of an Al-Qaeda-linked group in northern Mali as French-led forces advanced Sunday on the Islamist stronghold of Timbuktu. The overnight strikes in Kidal came 24 hours after French-led troops … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bamako, France, Gao, IndephtAfrica, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kidal, Mali, Niger
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A Malian soldier checks two civilians riding on a motorcycle in the recently liberated town of Diabaly January 24, 2013. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) During the course of the intervention in Mali led by France and members of the Economic Community of … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Benjamin Wittes, Economic Community of West African States, France, guantanamo bay, IndepthAfrica, Mali, mali news, malian news, Map of Angola, Third Geneva Convention, United States
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Ian Birrell, The Guardian Malians wave to French soldiers as a convoy of armoured vehicles leaves Bamako on January 15 for deployment in the north of Mali as part of operation Serval. Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images For 10 months the … read more »
Paul Rogers The seizure of an international gas-plant in Algeria follows closely the escalation of conflict in Mali. The response of western states to both reinforces the worldview of their Islamist adversaries. The combination of France’s armed intervention against Islamist … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Algeria, Christopher Stevens, France, In Aménas, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Patrick Cockburn
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The Real Stakes of the War Rocking West Africa A Malian soldier peeks through a doorway behind which Malian and French soldiers are stationed in Niono. (Joe Penney / Courtesy Reuters) The last few months have shaken Mali to its … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Bamako, Economic Community of West African States, France, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, mali news, malian news, New York Times, Tuareg people, West Africa
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By Sharif Nashashibi Just 10 days into its military intervention in Mali, there are already signs that France may have taken on more than it bargained for. The West African country may become to French President Francois Hollande what Iraq … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged France, François Hollande, French Armed Forces, Hollande, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, mali news, malia, Tony Blair, West Africa
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By Abayomi Azikiwe Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led by Islamist forces there and it appeared as if these difficulties … read more »
Posted in Angola, Letters & Interviews, Mali, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Algerian government, France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, United States, World Federation of Trade Unions
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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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Somali Islamists say they have decided to kill a French agent they have held since 2009, as confusion continues over whether he is in fact still alive. The Al-Qaeda linked Shebab said in a statement they have “reached a unanimous … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Colombia, Foreign hostages in Somalia, France, Jean-Yves Le Drian, somali news, Somalia, Somalia News, Transport in Somalia, United States
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On January 14 King Mohammed VI received a phone call from the French President, Francois Hollande, said the Royal Cabinet in a statement. On this occasion, the two leaders assessed and exchanged views on the situation in Mali in particular … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Dioncounda Traoré, France, François Hollande, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Military of Mali, Morocco, sub-Saharan 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 Mark John and John Irish | Reuters (Reuters) – Just as its leaders were defining a new “hands-off” strategy for Africa, France has been thrust onto the front line of one of the continent’s riskiest battlefields deep in the … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, France, François Hollande, Hollande, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Paris, Total SA
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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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An image posted online on Jan. 14, 2013 by Islamic militants in Somalia allegedly shows the body of a French commando who was killed in a failed raid aimed at freeing a French hostage. / YouTube MOGADISHU, Somalia In a gruesome … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Somali, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Al-Shabab, Foreign hostages in Somalia, France, François Hollande, French Defence, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Mogadishu, photo of French commando killed in raid, somali Al-Shabab, somali news, Somalia, Somalia News
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The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Mali, mali news, malian news, NATO, New York Times, Pentagon, United States
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Unpopular in the polls and accused of dithering on the economy, France’s Francois Hollande is in decisive mode when it comes to the situation in Mali. France’s sudden military intervention in its former colony Mali to contain Islamist militant groups … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged France, François Hollande, Hollande, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, mali news, malian news, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, West Africa
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French fighter jets pounded an Islamist rebel stronghold deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north. The attack on … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, ancient mali, Bamako, France, François Hollande, Indepth Africa Magazine, Mali, mali coup, mali drug, mali empire, mali food, mali history, mali map, mali pictures, President of France, West Africa
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France has said one of its soldiers and an intelligence agent have been killed in a failed hostage rescue attempt in Somalia. The agent, who is code-named Denis Allex and was captured by militants in 2009, died in the fighting … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Allex, Foreign hostages in Somalia, France, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, Islamism, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Mali, Somalia
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France’s air force carried out an air strike in Mali on Friday as it supported government forces trying to halt a push south by Islamist rebels who control the north, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. Asked at a news conference … read more »
Posted in Mali, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged France, france air strike in mali, François Hollande, Friday, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Konna, Laurent Fabius, Mali, mali news, malian news, United Nations Security Council
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