Category Archives: Tunisia
Timbuktu Who’s Who
First Published: 12 July 2012. Updated: 8 February 2013 Jump to News Update Notes MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad) The MNLA is a very recent organisation with a very old cause: the Tuareg have been fighting an insurgency against the central power in Mali since the late 1950s and openly fighting since 1963. This […]
1 Jan 2013 Updates
Libya says it will put Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdallahal- Senussi on trial “within a month” Western Sahara: Right to self-determination affirmed by UN, international consultations in 2013 to unlock conflict. The Western Sahara issue witnessed a rebound during 2012, particularly with publication of the UN Secretary General’s hard-hitting report, criticizing barriers imposed on the MINURSO mission […]
Western Sahara Under Mounting Pressure
Heightened Security “We’ve been building a lot of new walls lately,” says Polisario Front commander Ahmed Salem as he drives his 4 X 4 across Tindouf in Western Algeria. But the newly introduced security measures may not be enough to ensure the survival of the Western Sahrawis. Salem Ahmed drives along the desert sand wall […]
#WesternSahara’s Overlooked Arab Spring
In the wake of the ongoing unrest across the Arab world, voices from the forgotten Western Sahara conflict claim their role in the so-called Arab Spring. DW talked to a Western Sahara independence activist. Sidi Ahmed Talmidi was one of the nine-member group responsible for the negotiations with the Moroccan government during the events in […]
Black Tuesday in #Mali – Ansar Dine Attack Tuareg Women in Public
Now they’ve torn it. No man, not even the allegedly brutal soldiers of the Malian army (you remember, the ones 300,000 refugees reportedly fled from in terror?) has apparently raised his hand against a woman in public for sixteen hundred years. For it was in the 4th century that Queen Tin Hinan ruled the tents of this […]
