Opinion by Arezki Daoud:The military junta in Mali is now confronted with the realities of war. A car bomb attack on September 8 “caused around ten deaths… among the Malian Armed Forces”. Army-Tuareg war reignites in north MaliArmed groups from northern Mali on Tuesday claimed to have captured the key town of Bourem, situated between the ancient cities of Gao and Timbuktu, after fighting against the national army. “Unidentified armed groups had encircled the camp and roamed through the town,” local resident Mahamoud Ould Mety said by telephone. We can hear more firing, the FAMA (Malian Armed Forces) are everywhere in the town in numbers,” he added.
