First Published: 12 July 2012. Updated: 8 February 2013
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 incarnation was created in September 2011 with the arrival of ex-soldiers from Libya after the fall of Gaddafi.
For my readers following events in Mali, this blog provides a good overview and update.
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Useful, Diana, thank you. I visited a couple of the libraries that the zealots burned in Timbuktu, but the latest reports suggest that many of the irreplaceable manuscripts were smuggled out before the arsonists could destroy them–thank goodness!
Quite right, Steve – many were hidden elsewhere, leaving just a few. A strategy followed in times past with mss., ejrm under threat of attack.