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of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa and in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Mali is bordered by Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the southeast. It is Africa's third largest African producer of gold and once was involved in the slave tr

nstitution suspended. On 6 April 2012, rebels from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) declared the secession of a new state, Azawad, from Mali. Shortly after, the MNLA were sidelined by Islamist groups associated with Al-Qaeda[citation needed], and dropped their demands for seces

tic solution should be the first avenue for resolving the conflict. Malian diplomats had recently met with some ethnic Tuareg rebels in neighboring Burkina Faso in an attempt to resolve some long-standing complaints by the Tuareg people and isolate the Arab foreign fighters from the Qaeda franchise. General

In the days after the military coup, the Tuareg rebels seized much of the desert expanse in northern Mali, declaring it an independent state called Azawad. But the Tr rai •ebels — called the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, known as the — were then pushed into the background by the fie

- Protests erupt following Keita's death in prison. 1979 - New constitution provides for elections; Traore re-elected president. 1985 - Mali and Burkina Faso engage in border fighting. 1991 - Traore deposed in coup and replaced by transitional committee. Democracy 1992 - Alpha Konare wins multiparty ele

closer to the government-held south-west. In November they say they and al-Qaeda fighters capture Menaka, a town on the border with Niger, from the Azawad Tuareg rebels. 2012 November - The West African regional grouping Ecowas agrees to launch a coordinated military expedition to recapture the north