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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] Dana - I started this thread after watching the BBC news, and saw a Tuareg leader like the mulatto above. Knowing that means trouble for Black Africans, I started this thread to inform others. More from the BBC: The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Islamist Ansar Dine are the two major Tuareg groups involved in the takeover of the north of Mali. Other small groups also say they have taken part in the fighting. Despite having very different aims, MNLA and Ansar Dine have joined forces to fight together from time to time, including in the capture of Timbuktu - but there are serious tensions between them, Martin Vogl says. The MNLA grouping wants independence for the Tuareg's northern homeland, which it calls Azawad. A statement released by the MNLA said that now they are in control of the north they will stop fighting and begin their "mission of defending and securing the territory of the Azawad, for the happiness of its people". Two important figures in the MNLA are the general secretary Bila Ag Cherif and Mohamed Ag Najim, the head of the movement's military wing. In the ranks of the MNLA are Malian Tuareg who, while in exile in Libya, fought alongside Col Gaddafi's forces as he tried to cling to power in Libya. Once he was toppled, they returned to Mali - well-trained and with plenty of heavy weaponry. The other major Tuareg group is the Islamist Ansar Dine led by a renowned former Tuareg rebel leader, Iyad Ag Ghali. The group has ties to Al-Qaeda's north Africa branch, known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Ansar Dine says it has not been fighting for independence - it wants to remain part of Mali but wants to introduce Sharia across the whole country, which is largely Muslim. Who are the Tuareg? Sometimes called the Blue People because the indigo used in some traditional robes and turbans dye their skins dark blue Historically nomadic Berber people who live in the Sahara and Sahel regions of Libya, Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, which they call Azawad When camels were introduced into the Sahara 2,000 years ago, the Tuareg became the main operators of the trans-Saharan caravan trade in commodities such as salt and gold Lost out when trade witched to the Atlantic Ocean [b]The Tuareg in Mali say they face discrimination because they are light-skinned and have been neglected by the government in far-off Bamako[/b] They prefer to call themselves themselves the Kel Tamasheq or speakers of Tamasheq - their language which has its own alphabet [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [qb] The Kels already have their own nation. Their confederacy has lasted for centuries. The problem is no one acknowleges the Kel Confederacy and its seven sultanates whose land spans territory in the Euro colonialist carved nations of Mali, Algeria, Libya, and Niger. All the aforenamed countries have a "Tuareg" problem. The Kels never accepted colonial rule and for them the Euro carved nations are bogus. Mali for one will never give up the north and its strategic mineral resources and its non- Kel people look back to Songhai to legitimize their rights to the land even though Euros defined the boundaries of modern day Mali. [IMG]http://www.historyhaven.com/APWH/unit2/map_songhai.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.zonu.com/images/500X0/2010-01-05-11636/The-Songhai-Empire-1493-1528.gif[/IMG] One solution could be for all the nations with a Kel emirate to accord official, if limited, recognition to the Kel Confederacy as a start toward negotiation. However, Kel cultural values may see verbal negotiation as inimical. They have for centuries relied on armed violence to settle land control disputes, both internally and externally. Today's conflict is the latest in a continuing bid for dominance between Kels vs Mande & other non-Afrisan speakers documented over the last 1100 years. [/qb][/QUOTE]Rebels [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59393000/jpg/_59393250_014352839.jpg[/IMG] . Looking for stuff on the rebels in Niger. Will post that next. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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