Mali Islamists suffer split as Africans prepare assault
By , on January 25th, 2013
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A split emerged on Thursday in the alliance of Islamist militant groups occupying northern Mali, as French and African troops prepared an offensive aimed at driving them from their safe haven in the Sahara. A senior negotiator from the Ansar Dine rebels who helped seize the north from Mali’s government last year said he was now part of a faction that wanted talks and rejected the group’s alliance with al Qaeda’s North African franchise AQIM. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Mali Islamists suffer split as Africans prepare assault
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A split emerged on Thursday in the alliance of Islamist militant groups occupying northern Mali, as French and African troops prepared an offensive aimed at driving them from their safe haven in the Sahara. A senior negotiator from the Ansar Dine rebels who helped seize the north from Mali’s government last year said he was now part of a faction that wanted talks and rejected the group’s alliance with al Qaeda’s North African franchise AQIM. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Mali Islamists suffer split as Africans prepare assault
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