Friday, January 18, 2013

Mali: African Union to hold donor conference on intervention

The African Union is next week expected to hold a conference with potential donors to raise funds to support the planned African military intervention in northern Mali.

A meeting between the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed that the conference be held in Addis Ababa on January 29 at the end of the upcoming summit.

The UN Security council last December approved sending an African-led military force to liberate northern Mali from Islamist

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