Staatsgreep in Mali: de backlash van het Kadhafi tijdperk?

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Zoals reeds voorspeld was, zijn de toeareg strijders van Kadhafi terug naar Mali vertrokken, nadat ze Kadhafi zijn wapenopslagplaatsen hebben helpen leegmaken, uiteraard.
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Gevolg? Nieuwe opstand in Noord Mali

The fighters returning from Libya have blended into the National Movement for Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA) and renamed northern Mali as the Azawad, the name of the region home to a majority of the Mali Tuareg.
During the address, Toure blamed freshly-armed fighters returning from Libya for attacks on military patrols outside the northeastern town of Aguelhoc, which has become a flashpoint in the struggle between the military and the rebels.
The military was "unable to enter Aguelhoc where elements of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a group of former fighters from Libya and a group of deserters from our army were well positioned," Toure said, according to the state-run L'essor newspaper.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/06/wo...est/index.html

De coupplegers verantwoorden hun daden, door de lakse houding van de overheid in de strijd tegen de toeareg rebellen.

Renegade soldiers said they seized power in Mali on Thursday and ordered its borders closed, threatening to reignite instability in a Saharan region shaken by the conflict in Libya.

The overnight coup bid was led by low-ranking soldiers angry at the government's failure to stamp out a two-month-old separatist rebellion in the north of the west African state.

Heavy weapons fire rang out throughout the night as the presidential palace came under attack. The whereabouts of President Amadou Toumani Toure, who oversaw a decade of relative stability, are unknown.

Mali's neighbours, the United Nations and world powers from Paris to Washington called for a return to constitutional rule.

The 7,000-strong army has for weeks sought better weapons to fight northern Tuareg rebels bolstered by heavily armed ethnic allies who fled Libya after fighting for ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Members of the newly formed National Committee for the Return of Democracy and the Restoration of the State (CNRDR) read a statement on state television saying they had taken over.

http://af.reuters.com/article/maliNe...120322?sp=true

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Onder de rook van de staatsgreep winnen de Toearegs terrein

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso:
While all eyes are on the coup d’état in Bamako, the situation in the north of Mali remains volatile. Taking advantage of the apparent confusion in the Malian army, Tuareg rebels have captured Anefis, a strategically important military base north of Gao.

This has put them into a prime position to move on Kidal, one of the main cities in the north. The city is reported to be surrounded by forces of the rebel MNLA and Ansar Dine groups, with unconfirmed reports already talking of its capture.

At the same time, a column of Tuareg forces seems to be on its way to Gao, the base for army operations in the now largely Tuareg-controlled north. Heavy clashes were reported between Tuareg rebels and allegedly government-supported tribal militias in the vicinity of the city.

But the Tuareg rebels also face a growing danger of internal division: while the secular-nationalist MNLA and Islamist Ansar Dine still seem to cooperate, different ideologies and goals have become apparent.

http://thinkafricapress.com/mali/tua...ogo-cnrdr-mnla