Tuesday, 27 March 2012
David Lewis
Spillover from the overthrow of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi last year has been stirring a toxic cocktail of rebels, weapons, refugees, drought, smugglers and violent Islamic militants in Africa's turbulent Sahel region.Now this backwash of instability from one field of the Arab Spring has now claimed its first government south of the Sahara - with last week's coup in Mali, where renegade low-ranking officers in the West African state toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure.
Story at The Citizen
