Topic: Amadou Toumani Toure
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The men who would save Mali's manuscripts
Islamist militants in Timbuktu destroyed graves and shrines associated with Sufism this year. Ancient manuscripts are not directly threatened, but some fear they are next.
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Mali's army dumps another government, this one led by ex-NASA scientist
Cheikh Modibo Diarra, an astrophysicist who has worked for NASA, abruptly resigned today as Mali’s interim prime minister following his arrest last night by the country’s powerful army.
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Moving Mali forward
Mali was turned upside down last spring as armed groups overran the north and the military toppled the president. For some, crisis is a wake-up call, offering Malians a chance to create a new path.
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Focus
Will Mali be Africa's Afghanistan?Mali was hit by two successive shocks to its system this year – with the north seized by rebels and a coup in the capital – leaving its government fragile and the international community mulling intervention.
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Africa Monitor
Arms, drugs, and human trafficking: What does the future hold for northern Mali?A new unity government was formed in Mali this week, though it remains unclear whether it will be successful in restoring constitutional rule in the Tuareg-held north.
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Rebel alliances strengthen in Mali's north, rattling neighboring countries
The northern two-thirds of Mali is now under control of Tuareg and Islamist rebels who want to redraw national boundaries and export revolution. Displaced minorities tell of brutality.
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Mob assaults Mali's president, calling peace deal into question
Mali's interim president, Dioncounda Traore, has been taken to the hospital, unconscious, after pro-military junta protesters broke into the presidential palace. Will a ECOWAS peace deal hold?
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Keep Calm
West African group backs off intervention in Mali messECOWAS had warned of a possible military intervention, but at a meeting in the Malian capital of Bamako, they accepted an interim president chosen by military coup leaders.
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Keep Calm
Coup and counter-coup: Mali's military junta retains control of capitalMali's military junta have kept control of the capital, Bamako, after loyalists of the former president launch a counter-coup. But the junta has lost much of the country to Tuareg rebels.
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Keep Calm
Mali coup leaders pledge to hand over power as Tuareg rebels take TimbuktuDisarray following a March 21 coup has allowed Tuareg rebels to take over much of Mali's north. West African neighbors worry about spillover.
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African presidents forced to turn back from occupied Mali runway
The presidents of Ivory Coast, Benin, Liberia, Niger and Burkina Faso were due to arrive in Mali on Thursday to press for the departure of the junior officers that grabbed power in a coup last week.
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West African states put peacekeepers on standby over Mali
Last week, Mali's democratically elected government was overthrown in a military coup, triggering cuts in aid and rising tension.
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Africa Monitor
With coup, #Mali generates noise on TwitterDuring Tuesday's coup in relatively stable Mali, a dearth of information from standard news outlets made Twitter the go-to source for information.
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Rowdy soldiers loot Mali presidential palace after ousting leader
The whereabouts of the country's 63-year-old president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was just one month away from stepping down after a decade in office, could not be confirmed.
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Keep Calm
Outgunned against rebels, Mali soldiers overthrow governmentAfter a string of defeats against better armed Tuareg rebels, Mali's army staged a mutiny and overthrew the government.
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Africa Monitor
Sahel Blog: Tuareg rebellion in Mali's north sparks protests in SouthGuest blogger Alex Thurston says the anger follows setbacks for Mali's Army at hand of well-armed Tuareg rebels. Could we see citizen backlash against ethnic Tuaregs?
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Africa Monitor
With support, Mali could provide a rare democracy success storyMali has asked for logistical and financial support in its 2012 presidential elections, an event that could solidify huge strides made in recent years.
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Africa Monitor
How the African Sahel could be affected by Tripoli's fallWith Tripoli almost entirely in rebel hands, what will the fall of Muammar Qaddafi, who sometimes brokered peace and sometimes stoked conflict, mean for the countries to Libya’s south?
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Africa Monitor
Mali's two-pronged approach to combating Al Qaeda in the Islamic MaghrebMali is a regional outlier for trying to combat Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb with not just force, but also an initiative to address societal problems seen as fostering extremism.
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Africa Monitor
Libya's southern neighbors plan for life after QaddafiBearing the brunt of the exodus of Libyan refugees, several countries in the Sahel region – including Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, and Chad – have called on Qaddafi to step down.
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Africa Monitor
WikiLeaks cables reveal US-Algeria partnership for battling Al QaedaThe US is increasingly concerned about North Africa's Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). WikiLeaks cables indicate it is strengthening ties with Algeria to better combat AQIM's rise.
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France declares war against Al Qaeda after hostage killed
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said his country was at war with Al Qaeda after the group's affiliate in North Africa, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, announced it murdered a French aid worker it had held hostage since April.
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Al Qaeda rises in West Africa
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – the terror suspect who allegedly tried to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day – hails from Nigeria in West Africa. The Monitor takes a look at how the fight against Al Qaeda is going in the region.
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Terrorism & Security
Al Qaeda-linked militant group in Mali executes British hostageThe killing of Edwin Dyer underscores the growing threat posed by militants in North Africa with links to global terrorist groups.
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