...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 in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
border, in which a soldier and two non-combatants were killed, a senior army officer told AFP. No one grabbed credit for the attacks.
They were made public as the ICRC temporarily suspended its work in the northern city of Timbuktu following a carjacking at gunpoint close to the Geneva-based organization’s office. "We ask for measures to improve security in town and in the region," said the head of ICRC’s Mali delegation Jean-Nicolas Marti in a tweet. In a statement, the ICRC said gunnies stole one of its vehicles on Monday in the middle of the city and that several other thefts had happened in the region this year. "This latest incident is symptomatic of the level of insecurity prevailing in the city and region, which has reached an unacceptable threshold for the population," the ICRC said.
Despite military help from La Belle France and the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
, Mali’s government has struggled to quell the violence that began in the north of the country in 2012, sparked by radical Islamist and Tuareg militias. Ethnic violence in central Mali surged after a predominantly Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...jihadist group led by preacher Amadou Koufa emerged in 2015. They recruit mainly from among the Fulani ‐ primarily cattle breeders and traders ‐ and they have clashed with the Dogon and Bambara ‐ farmers who have formed their own self-defence militias. Whole areas of the country remain beyond the control of Malian, French and UN forces.