Je Mali kuna mali? Wafaransa wanalinda masilahi yao.

[Kinyungu]

Anyway i have heard mali have large deposit of gold and uranium.a large persent of their gold endup in europe street maybe that is why france is interested

Mali has potential for Oil especially in Taoudeni basin which cuts across Algeria, Mauritania and Mali itself.....may be.... uncle sum have smelled something.

Taoudeni basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Nonda]

[h=1]Mali: French troops in direct combat with insurgents 'within hours'[/h]France accuses militants of using human shields, as five Japanese nationals and a French citizen kidnapped in Algeria

Zaidi hapa Mali: French troops in direct combat with insurgents 'within hours' | World news | guardian.co.uk

French Boots On The Ground For Direct Combat With Islamists In Mali

European boots, tanks and trucks are now on the ground in the West African country of Mali, where militant insurgents have been in control of the northern regions for months and recently began making gains further south.

Zaidi hapa French Boots On The Ground For Direct Combat With Islamists In Mali

 

[Nonda]

France launches first ground attack on Mali
French troops have launched the first ground attack against rebel forces in Mali.

Zaidi hapa PressTV - France launches first ground attack on Mali

 

[Jasusi]

[Black Star News Editorial]

Mali And Central African Republic: Not Yet Uhuru

Mali and the Central African Republic are today dominating news from Africa as fighting escalates in the former and a shaky peace process halts war in the latter.

Both countries have weak national governments that are beholden on outsiders for their survival. Independence in both countries amounts to paper Uhuru.

The November and December Africa headlines belonged to M23. The Rwanda- and Uganda-backed force was reported by Human Rights Watch to have committed "widespread war crimes" in Congo and eventually briefly seized the city of Goma.

A United Nations report by a Group of Experts concluded that M23's chain of command passed through Rwanda's chief of military staff and went up to the Minister of Defense Gen. James Kabarebe, who in turn reports to Gen. Paul Kagame, the president.

The report also found that M23's leaders, including the ICC-indicted Bosco Ntaganda regularly had strategy meetings with Uganda's Presidential Advisor on Military Affairs Gen. Salim Saleh, brother of Gen. Yoweri Museveni. Ntaganda also reportedly met with Uganda police chief Gen. Kale Kayihura during those sessions.

M23 eventually quit Goma following international condemnation and pressure. Separately, President Barack Obama phoned Gen. Kagame to warn him about his support of M23. In addition to training and arming M23 Rwanda's regular army fought alongside them when it captured Goma.

Mali tops CAR in the news for now. There, France has launched air strikes against the insurgents who seized Timbuktu and a string of other cities. Mali's army, which was accustomed to merely overthrowing civilian governments and brutalizing unarmed civilians, fled quickly when the insurgents marched on Timbuktu.

When the insurgents resumed their march towards Bamako the Mali capital this month, Mali's army begged France to step in and do its fighting. The insurgents have the most modern weaponry. They seized the weapons when France and its NATO allies destroyed Muammar al-Quathafi's government in Libya, freeing up large arsenal of arms to any armed militia that could carry them away. So France is trying to clean up a mess it helped create.

In open terrain France's airforces may in the short run inflict tremendous damage and push the insurgents towards the north and beyond. The insurgents claim they will fight to the end. France has called upon the U.K. for indirect support and asked the U.S. to provide drones.

Even if the insurgents are pushed back, France and its NATO allies may not be in a position for long-term commitment to Mali's security -- at some point France will withdraw, especially if the conflict starts affecting Hollande's political fortunes back home. Defending Mali is the role for the national army: Mali's discredited army has shown that it's not up to the task. If the enemy is unarmed civilians, Mali's army is quick on the scene: if it's armed forces that fire back then Mali's army heads in the opposite direction.

France is not committing armed forces in Mali out of the goodness of President Francois Hollande's heart. Mali will have to pay, probably with resource concessions -- the leadership will also become even more beholden to France for years to come. Empire never works for free.

Mali's army overthrew its civilian government, usurped the democratic process, and delivered Mali to the insurgents. Unable to fight the insurgents the army then delivered Mali to France. National armies are supposed to protect the nation's citizens. In the case of Mali, the army, headed by an American-trained commander, Captain Amadou Sanogo, who seized power in March 2012, sold out the people the army was supposed to protect and defend.

It's as if Mali's army paved the way for what we now see transpiring.

In the Central African Republic the national army similarly fled when an alliance of rebels called Seleca marched on the capital of Bangui. President Francois Bozizi called support from neighboring countries: Chad, Cameron, Gabon and Congo Republic (Brazzaville). Later, South Africa also sent an intervention force.

Bozizi and Seleca agreed to a cease fire, negotiated in Libreville, the capital of Gabon. The combatants also agreed to power-sharing government.

Left unaddressed is how the Central African Republic moves forward. Bozizi's priority seemed negotiating an agreement that would allow him to complete his term in office in 2016.

There are many hidden hands fueling the conflict in Mali. Two years ago the United States sent Rangers supposedly to hunt for Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army leader. Why no update on this hunt? What have the U.S. forces been doing as the Seleca rebels marched towards Bangui?

Uganda also sent its national army the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) for this supposed search for Kony. Media reports later emerged that the Ugandan soldiers were brutalizing civilians in the Central African Republic and also looting diamonds.

So civilians in the Central African Republic are being victimized by many armed forces: internal ones and ones from outside the country. Many of these forces who have arrived to "rescue" the CAR should also be viewed carefully to ensure that they too don't take advantage of a weak country and loot its riches.

Any solution that does not involve the unarmed opposition: civil society; activists; and the youth, means the cycle of violence and unconstitutional power changing will continue in the CAR, much in the same way that it does in several African countries.


"Speaking Truth To Empower."

 

[Gavana]

Ndugu zangu wenye IDs hizo hapo juu. hii mada ni kuhusu Mali na yanayojiri huko.

Ustaarabu ungetumika hapa. Fungueni mada huko jukwaa la dini ili muelimishane, mbishane kuhusu dini zetu na imani zenu.

Tafadhalini, msiendelee kuchafua thread.

Shukrani mkuu , hao wote wengine huyo ni mtu mmoja kwa jina Maxi Shimba hiyo ndiyo tabia yake baada ya kufungiwa anakuja kwa majina mengi na moja ni buruburu . Yeye kila penye mada inayohusu waislamu huleta choko choko za kidini
bila kuzingatia umuhimu wa thread.
samahani kwa kumjibu nje ya mada

 

[Nonda]

Wazungu wamepata/wamebuni njia mpya ya kuwatumia waafrika kumalizana.

Germany sends military aircraft to transport African troops to Mali

Germany has sent two military transport aircraft with 14 crew members to Mali amid intensified clashes in the African country.

The planes, which were sent late Thursday, are supposed to transport to Mali soldiers from one of the 14 West African states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Zaidi hapa PressTV - Germany sends military aircraft to transport African troops to Mali

 

[Nonda]

Western-led war in Mali to leave 700,000 homeless: UNHCR

"We believe that in the near future there could be up to 300,000 people additionally displaced inside Mali, and over 400,000 additionally displaced in the neighboring countries," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said on Friday.

The figures do not include the existing 229,000 people already displaced inside the country and 147,000 refugees who have fled to neighboring nations, she told reporters in Geneva.

Zaidi hapa PressTV - Western-led war in Mali to leave 700,000 homeless: UNHCR

 

[Nonda]

Merkel, AU chief to discuss Mali in Berlin

Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert announced the news on Friday saying that the Benin President would be received with military honors in Berlin on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the European Union foreign ministers have agreed to back up France in its operations in Mali by launching a military mission to train and restructure the West African country's embattled army.

On January 11, France launched a military intervention in Mali under the pretext of halting the advance of militants in the African country.

Four days later, France announced that it would more than triple the number of its troopers in Mali from 800 to 2,500. French troops launched their first ground attack against rebel forces on January 16.

Zaidi hapa PressTV - Merkel, AU chief to discuss Mali in Berlin

 

[Nonda]

France's Fabius says Africa 'must' send troops to Mali

West African leaders have been told they must "pick up the baton" in the military offensive to drive Islamist insurgents out of Mali.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France had been obliged to send in troops "very, very rapidly otherwise there would be no more Mali".

But he has told a meeting in the Ivory Coast that the deployment of African soldiers is now a priority.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara also called for more support for Mali.

Zaidi hapa link BBC News - France's Fabius says Africa 'must' send troops to Mali

 

[Nonda]

Malian forces abusing, killing civilians: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch said on Saturday it had received credible reports of serious abuses, including killings, being committed by Malian security forces against civilians around the central town of Niono.

"We urge the Malian authorities, as well as the French and (West African) soldiers/authorities to do their utmost to ensure the protection of all civilians," the New York-based group said in a statement.

HRW said that Tuaregs and Arabs, ethnic groups most associated with rebels who have controlled Mali's north, were being especially targeted.

Zaidi hapa link Malian forces abusing, killing civilians: Human Rights Watch | Reuters

 

[Nonda]

French forces in Mali say the situation in the former Islamist stronghold of Diabaly is unclear, two days after militants withdrew from the town.

Last week French forces carried out air strikes on Diabaly, which had fallen to the Islamists on 14 January.
Malian and French forces have been patrolling the outskirts of Diabaly, the town's mayor told the BBC.

Zaidi hapa link BBC News - Mali conflict: Diabaly situation confused, French say

 

[Nonda]

Mali conflict: French troops 'seize' Diabaly, Douentza
French and Malian troops have seized the key Malian towns of Diabaly and Douentza from militant Islamists, the French defence minister has said.

A BBC reporter in Diabaly says the town bears the scars of conflict, with burnt-out vehicles and chunks of shrapnel strewn on the ground.

Islamist fighters fled Diabaly and Douentza last week after a French bombing campaign started on 11 January.

Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi has condemned France's actions.

"We never accept military intervention in Mali, because this will exacerbate conflict in the region," he said at an Arab economic summit in Saudi Arabia.

Zaidi hapa BBC News - Mali conflict: French troops 'seize' Diabaly, Douentza

 

[Nonda]

Egypt opposes the French-led war against the fighters in Mali and says the unrest will fuel conflict in the region.

In addition, the Egyptian president called for financing "development" in the African nation.

Also on Monday, the political opposition in France expressed regret over the country's "isolation" and lack of "clear objectives" in the war on Mali, calling on the French government to clarify the goals of the military operation in the country.


Zaidi hapa PressTV - Egypt does not accept war in Mali: President Morsi

 

[Nonda]

[h=1]U.S. begins transporting French troops, equipment to Mali[/h]"We have started air lifting French army personnel and equipment to Bamako from Istres," said Benjamin Benson, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).

Zaidi hapa U.S. begins transporting French troops, equipment to Mali | Reuters

 

[Nonda]

French-led troops in Mali have entered the historic city of Timbuktu encountering little resistance, French and Malian military sources.
But there are reports of thousands of ancient manuscripts being destroyed, with video footage of the library showing charred books and empty boxes.

French President Francois Hollande declared that the joint forces were "winning this battle".
They have been pushing north in their offensive against Islamist rebels.

They seized Gao, north Mali's biggest city, on Saturday.

Zaidi hapa BBC News - Mali crisis: French-led troops 'enter Timbuktu'

 

[Bukyanagandi]

Labda afrika tusiwe na Viongozi wenye umri zaidi ya hamsin.v

Mkuu mawaziri walio ondolewa juzi juzi na JK walikuwa na UMRI gani? Ndani ya miaka miwili walikuwa wanamiliki mali ya kiasi GANI? Chunga sana mkuu dogo wanakula bila ya kunawa mikono.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

 

[Kipala]

Western-led war in Mali to leave 700,000 homeless: UNHCR

"We believe that in the near future there could be up to 300,000 people additionally displaced inside Mali, and over 400,000 additionally displaced in the neighboring countries," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said on Friday.

The figures do not include the existing 229,000 people already displaced inside the country and 147,000 refugees who have fled to neighboring nations, she told reporters in Geneva.
Zaidi hapa PressTV - Western-led war in Mali to leave 700,000 homeless: UNHCR

Hadi sasa nilifikiri hii ilikuwa vita iliyoanzishwa na hao Al Qaida na sehemu ya kabila la Tuareg dhidi ya serikali ya mali? Pia dhidi ya utamaduni wa Kiislamu wa Kiafrika (wakiharibu urithi wa akina Sufi huko Timbuktu) ?

Ajabu . . .

 

[Kiranga]

Waafrika wengine noma sana.

Usipowasaidia wanasema huwasaidii kwa sababu kwao hamna mali, na unasaidia kwa kuangalia maslahi tu huko Iraq kwa mfano.

Ukisema ngoja niwasaidie, hata kwa sababu tu ya ku contain a crisis isisambae na kusababisha refugee kibao Ulaya, wanaanza kujiuliza "Mali kuna mali".

Ukiwaambia changieni majeshi mumsaidie muafrika mwenzenu, wanagwaya.

Basi ilimradi chochote utakachofanya watachonga tu.