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is not totally alone. The United Nations Security Council has approved a force of more than three thousand soldiers from African countries—including Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Togo—but they need to be trained first, and are not expected to be ready to deploy before September. Nigerian troops, ho

. , Islamists have managed to gain ground, defeating Malian soldiers and opening a southern front just two hundred and fifty miles from the capital, Bamako, even with the French offensive. The French are saying that the Islamists are using child solders, which will pose a tactical and ethical quandary

fer financial support from the United Nations. While a detailed military plan has yet to be drafted, the idea has been for about 3,30o troops from Nigeria and other African countries to help Mali's military mount a campaign against the militants. France, the United States and other countries would help

iew Mali, a former French colony, is a West African nation that had often been cited as a democratic model. But in March 2012, mutinous soldiers in Bamako, the capital, rose up in a coup, overthrowing the elected government of President Amadou Toumani Tour& The soldiers were angry over the government'

EFTA00598395 The West African regional grouping Ecowas agreed to launch a coordinated military expedition to recapture the north at a meeting in Nigeria in November, with UN backing. Preparations are expected to take several months. Music stars Despite its political travails, Mali is renowned world

B B -F C NEWS Mali ALGERIA MAURITANIA SENEGAL Atlantic Ocean MALI 0 Bamako , GUINEA BURKINA FASO NIGER The landlocked West African country of Mali - one of the poorest in the world - experienced rapid economic growth