Do You Know What is Happening in Mali?

[Doc91678]

Op-Ed:

By Prof. Phyllis Chesler
1/18/13

During the third debate of the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney talked about Mali and the danger al-Qaeda represented there. The Obamamedia laughed and derided Romney, carrying Barack Obama’s water and continued advancing the fraud that Obama had decimated al-Qaeda, even though al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists had taken over an American consulate and killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya just weeks prior.

Surprise!!!! Al-Qaeda in Mali is a serious enough threat that the French, THE FRENCH!, have invaded Mali to fight them there.

It looks like Romney was indeed correctly focused on foreign threats, al-Qaeda is not decimated but in fact very much alive, and the Obama administration is as blind, or more likely deceptive, about Mali as it was about Benghazi.

Or is Obama giving cover to Islamists in Mali like he does in Egypt and the Palestinian Authority?


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Do You Know What is Happening in Mali? - Op-Eds - Israel National News

 

[WillowTree]

who cares? obama won.

 

[Darkwind]

the lies about this will begin shortly...until then, there will be a brief intermission while the progressives open another website for instructions on what doctored reports they should use to refute this.

Please stand by.

 

[Mad Scientist]

the lies about this will begin shortly...until then, there will be a brief intermission while the progressives open another website for instructions on what doctored reports they should use to refute this.

Please stand by.

Like the French are going after the Gold but using Al Qaida as a cover story?

 

[Darkwind]

the lies about this will begin shortly...until then, there will be a brief intermission while the progressives open another website for instructions on what doctored reports they should use to refute this.

Please stand by.

Like the French are going after the Gold but using Al Qaida as a cover story?

Well, I think it is a trick story. I mean....The Phrench....attacking someone?

Seriously, what was the first clue that this is bogus?

 

[Samson]

I find the entire African continent boring except for the wildlife.

Threatened Species
Threatened Species: The following list includes all mammals which occur in Mali and are rated as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) or Vulnerable (VU) in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

Critically Endangered:
Addax (Addax nasomaculatus).
Endangered:
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).
Dama Gazelle (Gazella dama).
Slender-horned Gazelle (Gazella leptoceros).
Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus).
Vulnerable:
African Elephant (Loxodonta africana).
Barbary Sheep (Ammotragus lervia).
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus).
Dorcas Gazelle (Gazella dorcas).
Felou Gundi (Felovia vae).
Lion (Panthera leo).
Red-fronted Gazelle (Gazella rufifrons).
Spotted-necked Otter (Lutra maculicollis).
West African Manatee (Trichechus senegalensis


Read more: Animal Info - Mali

 

[Katzndogz]

Op-Ed:

By Prof. Phyllis Chesler
1/18/13

During the third debate of the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney talked about Mali and the danger al-Qaeda represented there. The Obamamedia laughed and derided Romney, carrying Barack Obama’s water and continued advancing the fraud that Obama had decimated al-Qaeda, even though al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists had taken over an American consulate and killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya just weeks prior.

Surprise!!!! Al-Qaeda in Mali is a serious enough threat that the French, THE FRENCH!, have invaded Mali to fight them there.

It looks like Romney was indeed correctly focused on foreign threats, al-Qaeda is not decimated but in fact very much alive, and the Obama administration is as blind, or more likely deceptive, about Mali as it was about Benghazi.

Or is Obama giving cover to Islamists in Mali like he does in Egypt and the Palestinian Authority?


(Excerpt)

Read more
Do You Know What is Happening in Mali? - Op-Eds - Israel National News

Obama is giving cover to islamists. He always did. He will always.

 

[Oldguy]

Of course it doesn't mean anything that this President has focused an historic amount of our military, economic and diplomatic power on sub-Sahara Africa, does it? Nor is it to be noticed that the right just recently condemned him for sending the US Army into various African countries to support those governments in their fight against Islamic fanaticism.

As if on cue, now they want to criticize him for not doing enough and hope nobody notices the duplicity!

 

[Glensather]

>Mali

Terrorists in another 3rd world shithole? Do I care?
No. Unless they attack U.S. interests they can rot in that awful place.

 

[BecauseIKnow]

the lies about this will begin shortly...until then, there will be a brief intermission while the progressives open another website for instructions on what doctored reports they should use to refute this.

Please stand by.

Like the French are going after the Gold but using Al Qaida as a cover story?

True, their uranium is all there too. It's not about 800 militants posing a threat, it's about the uranium and interests of France.

 

[waltky]

Malians want to call an end to slavery...

Malians Call for Criminalization of Slavery
August 08, 2013 — Slavery is still practiced among some groups in Mali. Activists had made some gains in their fight to outlaw the custom until early 2012, when a Tuareg rebellion and subsequent military coup plunged the country into chaos. Now, as Mali prepares to elect its next president, activists say the time is right to push for a law banning the centuries-old practice.

Although slavery was prohibited by the Malian constitution of 1960, it was never formally criminalized in law. Soumaguel Oyahit, secretary-general of the human rights association, Temedt, and himself a member of Mali’s slave caste, said the practice continues in conservative religious communities and among ethnic groups, including the Tuareg. “We are trying to prioritize the eradication of a tradition that we call descent-based slavery,” said Oyahit. “What this means is that across northern Mali and the Sahel, a child born to a woman who is a member of the slave caste, living in a family that has traditionally kept slaves, is itself condemned to being a slave. There is no law criminalizing this practice.”

Pursuing freedom, redress

Jim Wormington is a senior legal analyst with the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative. He described how, in 2012, the ABA opened a legal clinic in the northern city of Gao providing advocacy support to subjugated Malians seeking freedom and redress. “Certainly they described themselves as ‘slaves.’ They will say they have a 'master' whom they work for, often without pay, whether watching cattle or performing household tasks," he said. "People also described the violations they suffered... like, being beaten if they made a mistake. We’ve heard a number accounts of women who are raped, by their ‘masters’".

Women wrapped in shawls walk through a sandstorm in Timbuktu

The clinic prepared cases against 18 slaveholders for crimes including assault and sexual offenses. Wormington said that while the coup occurred before the first case went to trial, the ABA continues to document slavery among internally displaced Malians. “We’ve actually supported Temedt’s effort to draft that law for slavery itself to be clearly criminalized at the beginning of 2012. Advocating for the adoption of that law would be most appropriate after Mali’s elections, when there is again a government we can advocate to,” said Wormington.

Mali’s recent turmoil has concentrated the will of activists to eradicate slavery. Oyahit said Temedt has been lobbying the country's presidential candidates. “We wrote to all the candidates about our draft law,” he explained. “They know our 45,000 members are prepared to vote for any presidential candidate who will back our proposal.”

Exposing problem

 

[NightFox]

THE FRENCH!, have invaded Mali to fight them there.

I give it two weeks before the French surrender.

 

[waltky]

Prob'ly the only meal of the day for many students...

Halting school meals in Mali could keep thousands of children out of class - UN
Wednesday 28th September, 2016 - Taking away school meals from 180,000 pupils going back to class in Mali, where insecurity has closed schools in the north, may deprive even more children of an education, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

Halting a school meals programme due to a lack of funding will leave these children, in around 1,000 schools across Mali, without a guaranteed healthy meal each day, the WFP said. The U.N. agency said without these meals, many children may not go to school in the West African country, which faces a growing threat from Islamist groups in its desert north and has been rocked by a series of violent raids this year. "School meals are often the only nutritious meal a child receives a day, relieving families from further financial stress and motivating parents to send their children to school," Silvia Caruso, WFP's country director for Mali, said in a statement. "Teachers tell us that if the meals are no longer provided, there is a significant risk that parents will no longer send their children to school," said Caruso, adding that children find it tough to walk to or stay in school on an empty stomach.

Violence in northern Mali, which has forced teachers to flee and schools to remain closed, left nearly 400,000 children out of education months into the academic year in 2015, according to the U.N. children's agency UNICEF. More than a third of primary school-aged children in Mali are missing out on an education, more than four years after conflict involving rival armed groups and Islamist militants erupted, UNICEF said earlier this month. Armed groups have proliferated since Islamist groups took advantage of an ethnic Tuareg uprising in 2012 to seize the north of the country. A French-led intervention drove them back in 2013 but instability has continued and undermines a fragile U.N.-backed peace process.

Despite the insecurity and challenges of being able to reach people in need, the WFP said it had managed to provide school meals to an average of 170,000 children a year since 2012. "Going to school helps (the children of Mali) regain their childhood, and school meals play an important role in keeping them in school," Caruso said, adding that the WFP urgently needed US$3 million to resume its school meals programme in Mali. Dwindling funds and shifting donor priorities mean that more than 1.3 million children across West and Central Africa risk missing out on school meals from the WFP by the end of 2016, the U.N. agency said last month.

Halting school meals in Mali could keep thousands of children out of class - UN