"WHAT THOUGH I AM OBLIGATED TO DANCE A BEAR." In Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré resigned as president, and the leaders of the military coup that deposed him three weeks ago agreed to restore constitutional rule. The junta’s announcement came hours after Tuareg rebels declared the independent nation of Azawad in the north, following a ten-week military offensive by the Tuareg NMLA and the Islamist Ansar Dine. “I heard the declaration but I'm telling you the situation on the ground,” said a Malian man in the de facto Azawadian capital of Gao. “We barely see the NMLA. The people we see are the Salafis.... We know they are the Islamists because of their beards.”
Weekly Review
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Weekly Review
"WHAT THOUGH I AM OBLIGATED TO DANCE A BEAR." In Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré resigned as president, and the leaders of the military coup that deposed him three weeks ago agreed to restore constitutional rule. The junta’s announcement came hours after Tuareg rebels declared the independent nation of Azawad in the north, following a ten-week military offensive by the Tuareg NMLA and the Islamist Ansar Dine. “I heard the declaration but I'm telling you the situation on the ground,” said a Malian man in the de facto Azawadian capital of Gao. “We barely see the NMLA. The people we see are the Salafis.... We know they are the Islamists because of their beards.”