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French defense ministry officials have said that they are planning to make a withdrawal from Mali by April.

GENEVA (6 February 2013) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Wednesday that the widely criticized trial and sentencing of a Somali journalist, and the alleged raped victim he interviewed, risks seriously undermining the fight against sexual violence and urged that their c

OMOYELE SOWORE: Professor Horace Campbell is a noted peace and justice international scholar and a professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. He has a book coming out in March called ‘Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya’.

On BBC Question Time last week an angry audience member asked the panel why Britain should be sending military help to the French in Mali. “I don’t remember the French coming to our aid when we went to the Falklands” he fumed to loud applause.

·We demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of French troops from Mali!

·We are opposed to imperialist wars! And this is an imperialist war of aggression in Mali.

On 12 October 2012, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a French-drafted resolution asking Mali’s government to draw up plans for a military mission to re-establish control over the northern part of Mali, an area of the Sahara bigger than France.

I am admittedly a Francophobe.

It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts.’ -- Charlie Marlow from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The vision that Conrad's character Marlow describes is of a French frigate firing broadsides into a vast African jungle, in essence, bombarding a continent.

Hanna, not her real name, born in 1992 in New Hargaysa the Somaliland capital celebrated her 20th birthday last 18 May, the Independence Day. Twenty years after independence, little has changed in her life.

For not less than 12 years, Somalilanders were chanting ‘Democracy’ without a deep understanding.