Knock-on consequences of AQIM’s re-emergence are being felt in both poor and
rich states.
The redeployment of troops in Mali last week to fight al-Qaeda was yesterday
blamed for triggering a clashes for control of Manaka, a market town,
between the army and desert nomads.
Fighting in Menaka was so fierce the government of President Amadou Toumani
Toure was forced to deploy helicopter gunships to fend off Tuareg fighters.
Security experts said that the government’s deployment of additional troops to
Mali’s desert music festival, held near Timbuktu in Mali’s north, had
sparked the offensive by the Tuareg factions and its al-Qaeda allies
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