Mali: Creeping famine in the north
Issikta blog republishes an urgent appeal from the mayors of Adielhoc and Tinzawaten communes in Kidal Region, northeast Mali. In a land where seasonally migrating animal herds are the economic...
View ArticleFrancafrique: French “FBI” ran the Malian AQIM prisoner release
"Intelligence Online" reports that the French internal security agency, the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI) carried out the negotiation with the AQIM for the release of French...
View ArticleAQIM: More hostage stories
Philomène Kaboré and her husband Sergio Cicala have given interviews regarding their captivity: she having been released some time ago, and he Friday the 16th. They were taken in Mauritania, near the...
View ArticleAQIM: More hostage stories
Philomène Kaboré and her husband Sergio Cicala have given interviews regarding their captivity: she having been released some time ago, and he Friday the 16th. They were taken in Mauritania, near the...
View ArticleAQIM: More hostage stories
Philomène Kaboré and her husband Sergio Cicala have given interviews regarding their captivity: she having been released some time ago, and he Friday the 16th. They were taken in Mauritania, near the...
View ArticleNiger: Another kidnap in the north
The French press is reporting that a French tourist and an Algerian guide were kidnapped by armed men today in northern Niger, near the well at In-Abangaret. Also spelled Inabangaret, it’s a stopping...
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Niger, Mali: Hunger, famine or both
A herd, starved to death, in North Mali. These animals represent many years of saved wealth and future investment for Malian pastoralists. Hopefully by now everyone knows that parts of West Africa,...
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Bibliographic References for Sunny Days
Better choices for sunny afternoons: Outside the African Dance Fest in Brooklyn last week. It’s beautiful in New York, and the world if full of things to argue about. Here are three important issues...
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The US joins the Football world
…by complaining about the officiating. Two hours after the US Match: Koman Coulibaly still on en.wikipedia.org's "List of bank robbers and robberies" Also see Koman Coulibaly’s Wikipedia Page Defaced...
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Death and Career in the “Dark” Sahara: The Sad Fate of Jeremy Keenan
Image via Wikipedia I would rather be talking about real things. Since September 2011, northern Mali has been on tenterhooks, waiting to see which rumors of risings, rebellions, independence struggles...
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Mali: French papers’ Mali MIG evidence is photo of a truck
The 25 January Le Monde article and photo When the rebel group MNLA launched its first attack on 17 January, their Parisian supporters made some rather extraordinary claims: that it had captured the...
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On Western analysts and the Mali Conflict, April 2012
Kidal town : as seen when being parachuted in. (Photo credit: ju-yaovi) In digging through my notes today, I stumbled upon this bit of an email exchange I had with a reporter on 20 April 2012 — more...
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The Measurement of a “World in Turmoil” : Background to a Terrible Idea.
Flashing Lights: a screenshot of impending doom or liberation? (“Foreign Policy”/John Beieler/Google Maps/CartoDB) Foreign Policy magazine this week declared that we are living “in a world of turmoil”:...
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Looking For Cocaine Terrorists: The 2009 US Drugs Sting in Mali.
This story originally appeared in Maghreb Politics Review on December 21, 2009, as US Arrests Malians in Terror Drugs “Link”. Those arrested later confessed their crimes to a 2012 American court in...
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