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...The Malian military source, who asked not to be named, said an army resupply convoy came under attack on Saturday 50 km (30 miles) from Tessalit, in Mali's desert Kidal region which borders with Algeria to the north...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03710381.htm



PS die Tuaregbevölkerung sieht die Ereignisse anders

http://www.kidal.info/Forum/FR/lire.php?msg=17757

Belkhadem and Al Mahmoudi to discuss diplomatic and security issues
Algeria embarrassed by the Libyan intervention in the peace process in Mali

The Algerian authorities have been embarrassed regarding the Libyan president Mouamar Khadafi mediation in negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg. They consider his intervention as annoying the peace agreement concluded in Algeria in 2006. Libyan PM, Al Baghdadi Ali Al Mahmoudi will be informed about Algeria embarrassment during the visit he is paying to Algeria as of today. mehr...

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Malian leader urges Tuareg to work for peace

Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) on Friday call ed on Tuareg rebel movements in the north of the country to work for peace, unit y and concord for reconstruction, security and development in Mali. mehr...

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While no agreement has been reached in Libya
Bamako seeks anew Algiers to end the Tuareg rebellion in Kidal
20.05.2008

The Malian government has asked officially Algeria to intervene to put an end to the tension experienced by the northern regions of Mali, which are under the control of movements of rebellion led by Tuareg tribes, and its continuous failure of dialogue between the two parties in Libya during the last week ... mehr

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27 killed as Tuaregs attack Malian army posts: government
21.05.2008

BAMAKO (AFP) — Ten government soldiers were among 27 people killed Wednesday and 31 were injured after armed Tuareg rebels attacked army positions in Mali's extreme northeast, the defence ministry said. A statement said an overnight attack on an army post at Abeibara had "left 10 government soldiers dead and six wounded while there were 17 deaths and 25 wounded on the assailants' side." Abeibara lies 150 kilometres (95 miles) north of Kidal, the main town of the frontier region bordering Algeria ... mehr

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Many killed in Mali army camp clash
At least 32 people have been killed in clashes between Tuareg separatists and army troops in Mali.
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Major Tuareg attack tests Mali's control of north
22.05.2008

BAMAKO (AFP) — Mali on Thursday faced up to the most deadly attack in years by armed Tuareg rebels, after clashes left 32 dead in a new test of the government's control of the northern frontier region with Algeria. Tuareg rebels attacked army positions in Mali's far northeast on Wednesday. The clashes at Abeibara left 15 government soldiers dead and six wounded while 17 rebel fighters were killed and 25 injured, Malian army spokesman, Colonel Abdoulaye Coulibaly told AFP Thursday. Earlier the ministry of defence had put the death toll at 27. Abeibara lies 150 kilometres (95 miles) north of Kidal, the main town of the frontier region bordering Algeria ... mehr

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Niger Tuareg rebels free abducted rights official

Sun 25 May 2008, 12:02 GMT

[-] Text [+] NIAMEY, May 25 (Reuters) - Tuareg-led rebels in Niger have freed a local human rights official they abducted after accusing him of being involved in purchasing arms for the government and its army, the rebels and rights officials said on Sunday.

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Mali citizens want nomadic rebel leader arrested: spokesman
25.05.2008

BAMAKO (AFP) — A group of private citizens in Mali are seeking an international arrest warrant against a Tuareg leader accused of lethal attacks in the north of the west African state, their spokesman said Sunday. They are pursuing Ibrahim Ag Bahanga, head of a faction of the nomadic people known as the Tuarag who have grievances against the Mali government. The collective of northern inhabitants (Coren) launched their appeal at a meeting in the capital Bamako, said Coren general secretary Abdoulaye Dicko ... mehr

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Mali: ATT willing to make peace with Tuareg rebels
27.05.2008

Malian leader Amadou Toumani Touré has expressed his willingness to make peace at any moment with the Tuareg rebels from northern Mali, on the basis of the Algiers memorandum of agreement, but insisted he would not negotiate separately with each camp ... mehr

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BURKINA FASO-MALI : Hundreds of Touareg refugees flee escalating violence

OUAGADOUGOU, 29 May 2008 (IRIN) - Several hundred Malians fleeing fighting between the army and Touareg rebels in northern Mali have crossed the border into Burkina Faso since April, according to the Burkina Faso national commission for refugees (CONAREF). mehr...

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Mali and Algeria discus terrorism and Tuareg issues
Tuareg rebels leader Bahanga sooner in Algiers
04.06.2008 - El Khabar

Algeria and Mali defense ministers started yesterday discussions over military cooperation, while sources close to the file said negotiations focused on two axes: Al-Qaeda in the Sahel, and Tuareg rebels in northern Mali.
Furthermore, the leader of the Tuareg rebels Agg Bahanga told El Khabar of his imminent visit to Algeria this month ... mehr

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Mali army reports heavy clashes with Tuareg rebels
Thu 5 Jun 2008, 15:34 GMT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's armed forces are engaged in heavy fighting with Tuareg rebels after attacking their positions in the northeast Kidal region, and both sides had suffered casualties, a senior Malian officer said on Thursday. The clashes took place around the Insalat stronghold of Tuareg insurgent leader Ibrahima Bahanga, whose nomadic fighters have been attacking army garrisons and convoys in the rugged northeast of the West African Sahel state since last year. "This is violent combat with heavy weapons ... we don't have a casualty toll yet, but it's going to be heavy," the officer, who asked not to be named, told Reuters in Bamako. He said that the army had gone on the offensive on Wednesday against Bahanga's forces at Insalat, around 100 km (60 miles), from the northeast Saharan trading town of Kidal ... mehr
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Westafrika: Hirten auf der Flucht
Malis Tuareg suchen Schutz in Burkina Faso
06.06.2008

Ouagadougou. Etwa tausend Tuareg sind in den letzten Wochen vor den im Norden von Mali andauernden Kämpfen zwischen Aufständischen und der Armee über die Landesgrenze im Süden nach Burkina Faso geflohen. Weil die Nomaden ihre Kamele und bescheidenen Ziegenherden zurücklassen mussten, haben sie ihre Existenzgrundlage verloren ... mehr
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Mali sacks military chiefs as Tuareg revolt grows
Fri 6 Jun 2008, 15:55 GMT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali has replaced most of its military and security chiefs to improve leadership of its armed forces as they struggle to quell an escalating year-old Tuareg insurgency in the remote Saharan north. President Amadou Toumani Toure's government decided to replace a handful of the country's top officers at an extraordinary cabinet meeting late on Thursday after two days of fierce fighting in the region near the border with Algeria ... mehr


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Mali army says kills 20 Tuareg rebels in clashes
Sat 7 Jun 2008, 15:09 GMT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali said its army killed at least 20 Tuareg rebels near the Algerian border this week in the heaviest fighting since a rebel assault last month that blew apart the latest accord to end a growing revolt in the Sahara. The government overhauled its military leadership on Thursday after fighting subsided, promoting to overall armed forces chief the head of the land army, who colleagues say has spent the last few months in the north battling nomadic rebels ... mehr

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