"Civil War Returns To Mali" Topic

"Pro-government militia and Tuareg rebels clash in northern town of Kidal, raising fears for a fraying peace agreement.

Up to 20 people have been killed and at least 40 others wounded, according to health workers, in two days of fighting in northern Mali threatening a shaky year-old peace deal.

The Tuareg-dominated Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) and rival Gatia militia fighters, who had peacefully shared control of the town of Kidal since February, clashed for a second day on Friday, the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said in a statement…"
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Well, the Tuareg are fiercely independent (and just plain fierce when they need to be) and they've been getting hosed by various authorities for over a century now. I'm not at all surprised that they've got unaddressed grievances.

in fact the disastrous French foreign policy toward Africa…tried unsuccseful to change the nature of things on the spot..i'm not surprised that the fierce Tuaregs had been upset to find themselves, thanks to the French intruders, at the mercy and obliged to take orders from their former slaves or, more recently, their former submitted African neigbours…..maybe it's a more democratic way from our European/US point of view..but, despite that and for them,it has been the best way to send them in the arms of Daesh; Al Qaida or other fundamentalists

I didn't know it ever left …