Mali: Keita administration and Tuareg Separatists negotiating northern devolution

The Tuareg separatists are seeking a form of local government, including some form of federalism, with local parliament and security, saying Bamako neglected their region for decades.

Recently elected president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is also under pressure over security and faces criticism from southerners unwilling to give concessions to the separatists who they blame for a crisis when al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants swept the north.

Source: Reuters

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