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News Editors Are Suddenly Embracing the Mali Conflict; But Mali's Gentle, Modest People Will Find This New Violence Horrifying

Jane Labous | Posted 30.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Mali, Islam, Timbuktu, Djenne, Bamako, Africa, UK Media, A-Qim, Francois Hollande, UK Press, Journalism, Al Qaeda, UK Politics News
Jane Labous

Journalists love a war and have been quick to travel to cover the conflict, but most seem at best only vaguely informed about its political, geographical and humanitarian context.

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Why Mali Matters

Stefan Simanowitz | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Ecowas, Africa, Bamako, Terrorism, Aqim, Al Qaeda, France, Mali, Algeria, David Cameron, Al Qaida, UK Politics News
Stefan Simanowitz

Despite little media coverage al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups have been consolidating and extending their grip across northern Mali for several months. Jihadist fighters have reportedly been crossing Mali's porous borders described by Malians as having come from as far afield as Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan.

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Malian British Embassy Staff Withdrawn Amid Violence

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 06.06.2012 | UK
Read More: Amadou Toumani Toure, Mali, Mali-President-Amadou-Toumani-Toure, Africa, Bamako, Azawad, Western Africa, Tuareg, UK News

The British embassy in Mali has been closed as violence in the country threatens to spill out of control. Mali's under-fire military junta is comin...

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