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| Mali PM urges military intervention |
| 2012-12-29 |
| [Magharebia] Malian Prime Minister Diango Cissoko on Thursday (December 27th) pleaded for African military intervention "as soon as possible" to help his country oust gangs, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Le Monde reported. "Hurry up! They want to kill me!" He was speaking at a presser after a meeting with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... , who also chairs the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS). Cissoko began a regional tour Wednesday in Ouagadougou, where he met with ECOWAS mediator and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office during the Reagan administration... President Blaise Compaoré. He will also visit Benin and Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... Last week, the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... decided to back the ECOWAS proposal to send 3,300 troops to the region. The Security Council gave an initial one year authorisation to the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) to use "all necessary measures" to help Malian authorities retake land held by "terrorist, turban and gangs". |
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