Baz Lecocq

TL;DR: In this article, a group of eight scholars tried to give a comprehensive overall picture of the current political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'etat against the incumbent President Toure, and finallly a political stalemate of great concern to the international community.

TL;DR: In 2012, the political landscape in the Republic of Mali transformed rapidly, drastically, and unpredictably The formation of a new Tuareg political movement (the National Movement of Azawad) in October 2010 and the return to Mali of Tuaregs with military experience from the Libyan conflict in August 2011, bringing along heavy weapons and logistical supplies made speculation on renewed violence on the part of separatist Tuarege inevitable Indeed, TuareG separatists launched attacks on Malian garrisons in the Sahara in January 2012 Mali had experienced such rebellions before What nobody foresaw was that this renewed

TL;DR: In recent decades peoples in the Sahara and Sahel have developed a new type of assault vehicle that is best known under the name of its most significant weapon, the Soviet-made Teknikal heavy machine gun as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the past four decades the Tuareg, a people inhabiting the central Sahara, experienced dramatic socioeconomic upheaval caused by the national independence of the countries they inhabit, two droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, and prolonged rebellion against the state in Mali and Niger in the 1990s.

TL;DR: The processus d'affranchissement des Touareg, autrefois esclaves, that l’on nomme generalement bellah, dans le Mali du nord, de la fin des annees 1940 a nos jours, and les relations actuelles entre les anciens maitres and les ancientens esclave.