French continue bombing insurgent positions in Mali; Where is the U.S.?
Another day of fighting in northern Mali, with French aerial bombardments of insurgent positions; U.S. appears disinterested. See Afua Hirsch in Bamako and Kim Willsher…
résolution 2085
U.N. Security Council Issues Press Statement on Mali (SC/10878) (including text)
The United Nations Security Council issued a Press Statement on January 10, 2013 regarding the deteriorating situation in Mali (SC/10878; AFR/2502). The text of the…
U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 2085 authorizing political, training and military action to restore control over North in Mali; confused resolution launches international bureaucratic and decision-making monstrosity
For those that have been following or are only dimly aware of recent events in Mali, where Tuareg revolutionaries and al-Queda linked terrorists have taken…