Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Mali: Military intervention to retake north not likely until 2013

A planned African-led military offensive to reclaim northern Mali from al-Qaeda-linked insurgents is unlikely to begin before next year — despite growing concern about the terrorist threat militants there pose to the continent and the rest of the world, a West African official said Tuesday.

An international plan is being finalized to help Mali's interim government root out the Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, that have become the de facto rulers of the

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