AFRICOM Related News Clips 9 April 2012

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United States Africa Command

Public Affairs Office

9 April 2012

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Good morning. Please see today's news review for April 9, 2012. This e-mail is bestviewed in HTML.

Of interest in today's report:

- President Toure resigns, Mali junta to hand power over to interim government- Car bomb kills 38 in Central Nigeria

- AU forces deploy outside of Mogadishu for first time in five years- Malawi's vice president sworn in as president, becomes second female head of statein Africa- New York Times' columnist Thomas Friedman examines environment, population andclimate stresses that contributed to Arab Spring

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Mali'sPresident tostep down,soldiers agreeto restorecivilian rule

04/09/2012Reuters

Mali's President Amadou Toumani Tour resigned on Sunday, paving the way for the soldiers who ousted himin a coup to stick by a deal to restore civilian rule and hand power to the president of the National Assembly.

Mali'sparliamentaryhead returnsfrom exile

04/08/2012AssociatedPress

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's parliamentary head, who was forced into exile after last month's coup, returned

Saturday to this nation in crisis, marking the first step in Mali's path back to constitutional rule.

AU welcomesagreement ofBamako,prospects forrestoration ofconstitutionalorder in Mali

04/08/2012Xinhua NewsAgency

ADDIS ABABA, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) on Saturday said it welcomed the signing of the
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Framework Agreement of Bamako between the junta and the Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) on April 6, which provides a series of steps ...

For Rebels inMali, Odds ofEstablishing aNation Are

Slim

04/07/2012New YorkTimes

JOHANNESBURG -- Lines etched in sand are playthings of the wind. So it is no wonder that the nomadicTuareg people of West Africa, who have for centuries plied caravan routes that crisscross the Sahara with littleregard for national borders, have long believed

Mali attractsIslamistfighters, al-Qaida, in voidleft by coup,rebellion

04/06/2012WashingtonPost

NIAMEY, Niger -- Al-Qaida militants and other Islamist fighters are descending on northern Mali in the chaoticaftermath of a military coup, creating a potential haven for terrorists in a part of the Sahara bristling with heavyweapons looted from Libya.

Official: 38Killed inCentralNigeria CarBombing


LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday morning on a busy road afterapparently turning away from attacking Nigerian churches holding Easter services, killing at least 38 people ina massive blast that rattled a ci ty lon...

NorthernNigeria livesin fear ofmilitant group

04/08/2012Los AngelesTimes

KANO, Nigeria -- In an attack that didn't happen -- well, not officially -- a police inspector and four of his

officers were ambushed by Islamist militants last month in this northern Nigerian city.First UPDFsoldiersdeployoutsideMogadishu

04/06/2012Daily Monitor

At least 50 UPDF soldiers yesterday deployed in Baidoa, the third largest city in Somalia, marking the firstAfrican Union forces' deployment outside Mogadishu in five years.

Women'sactivist BandabecomesMalawi'spresident

04/07/2012Reuters

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Prominent women's rights campaigner Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi'spresident on Saturday, becoming southern Africa's first female head of state and raising hopes for a fresh startin the small, poor nation after the death of her ...

Op-Ed: TheOther ArabSpring


ISN'T it interesting that the Arab awakening began in Tunisia with a fruit vendor who was harassed by policefor not having a permit to sell food -- just at the moment when world food prices hit record highs? And that itbegan in Syria with farmers in the ...
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