Showing posts with label Algeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Algeria. Show all posts

Mali: Timbuktu falls to the Azawadis

And a ceasefire is declared on the grounds that Tuareg-led rebels have captured enough land to create a state.

Mali: Could the Azawad secede?

With oil found, and now unity between the Azawadi Haratines, Arabs and Tuaregs, could Mali split? Can the Azawad dream become reality?

Libya: Hunt for Gaddafi is like "chasing a mirage"

As NTC forces shift south of Sabha to Awbari, the BBC reports "nothing but sand and rock stretching the 350km to the borders of Niger and Algeria." I don't agree.

Libya: can Gaddafi fight back from Ghat?

The last loyalist stronghold in the Fezzan is a desert garrison town called Ghat. A fight-back might start here.