Jerusalem Report

Ripped apart by war

The rift between Mali’s north and south looks likely to deepen

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Photo by: VICTORIA ADAL
The rebels who took over Mali’s north last year had various philosophies – some Islamist, such as those from the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), supported by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and some primarily just separatist, such as the those from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA; Azawad is a term for Mali’s north).

But they were all Tuaregs and Arabs.

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