Mauritania’s ousted President Sidi Abdallahi formally resigned as part of a power-sharing deal with the nation’s military rulers—days after a US teacher was killed by suspected al-Qaeda militants.
Gunmen presumably linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ambushed and killed 24 Algerian paramilitary police in the country’s deadliest insurgent attack in nearly a year.
Malian security forces clashed with a group of suspected al-Qaeda militants in the northern Tessalit region, killing several people, a senior military source told Reuters.
A power-sharing deal between Mauritania’s military junta and opposition is being delayed by disagreement over the composition of an interim government.
Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja held peace talks with Tuareg rebel leaders for the first time in the northern town of Agadez—as work commences on a giant uranium mine in the Tuareg region.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 90% of the vote to secure his third mandate, in elections marred by terror attacks despite tight security throughout the country.
The government of Libya has released two men convicted in 2007 of planning to overthrow the government and meeting with a foreign official, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced March 10. Jamal al-Haji and Faraj Humaid were arrested as part of… Read moreLibya releases two political prisoners convicted in subversion plot
President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali vowed a harsh crackdown on the Tuareg guerillas, vowing that “all the operational means will be mobilized” against the desert insurgency.
In his unlikely New York Times op-ed of Jan. 22, “The One-State Solution,” plugging his utopian scheme for a single country uniting Israel and Palestine as “Isratine,” Muammar Qaddafi (this appears to be the Colonel’s preferred spelling), the one-time bad… Read moreQaddafi endorses Zionist revisionism!
In one of its first statements since Barack Obama took office, the US State Department called for “the immediate return to constitutional order” in Mauritania, where a military coup cut short a democratic opening.
Tuareg guerillas killed at least at least nine soldiers in an attack on an army post in Mali’s remote north Dec. 22. The government claimed 11 rebel fighters were also killed when when gunmen in more than 20 four-wheel-drive vehicles… Read moreMali: Tuareg rebels attack
A Niger guerilla faction led by dissident Tuareg insurgent leader Rhissa Ag Boula announced Dec. 16 it had abducted Canadian UN special envoy Robert Fowler, who disappeared with an aide while driving some 30 miles northeast of the capital Niamey…. Read moreNiger: Tuareg rebels seize UN envoy?
