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To: kristinn; SpinnerWebb
Good, informative posts guys.

For those who want to understand the different factions:

The MNLA are ethnic Tuareg Islamic militants who consider the northern half of Mali to be a separate Tuareg country called Azawad. They are fighting for a separate nation state.

Ansar Dine are ethnic Tuareg Islamic militants who want all of Mali to remain united and to transform it into a Muslim theocratic state run by Tuaregs. Their leaders are dissidents from the MNLA.

AQIM are ethnic Arab Islamic militants who want all of Mali to remain united and to transform it into a Muslim theocratic state run by Arabs.

MUJWA are ethnically black (the Mande peoples) Islamic militants who want all of Mali to remain united and to transform it into a Muslim theocratic state run by Mande people and to expel the Arabs. Their leaders are dissidents who left AQIM.

The government of Mali is a majority Mande secular republic allied with France and part of La Francophonie (somewhat like the UK's Commonwealth).

31 posted on 01/16/2013 11:30:54 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Is this faction against faction or are they all fighting against secular govt?


36 posted on 01/16/2013 11:47:28 AM PST by GQuagmire
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