This can’t be good
Last week, Tuareg rebels launched an attack on an army camp in northeastern Mali, killing 32.
A several decade long Tuareg insurgency in Mali ended with a peace agreement in the early 1990s but tension appears to have resurfaced.
Reuters noted: The Malian Tuareg rebels and the Tuareg-led rebel Niger Justice Movement (MNJ) in neighbouring Niger have in the past denied any formal alliance. But Malian and Niger security officials believe they sometimes work together.
posted by Brian @ Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Hello,
I found this post via New Yorker in DC. I did some research on the Tuareg rebellions (wrote my thesis on it). Links between the rebels in Mali and Niger are not new. Some examples: Tuareg in Niger helped Malian fighters acquire weapons in a weapons sale location near the Niger/Chad border, Malian rebels helped with a jailbreak in Niger, and they cooperate in drug smuggling. If you're interested, shoot me an email or check out my blog (a517dogg.blogspot.com).
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