Skip to main content

Breaking News
  • Obama speech in Berlin: plans to seek negotiations with Russia to end “Cold War postures”
  • Obama speech in Berlin: US can maintain strong deterrent while reducing deployed nuclear weapons by one third
Mali civilians fault own army

perspectives

| |

As French troops and reinforcements deploy in Mali, rumours about abuses committed by the country’s own army have cast a cloud over operations, France 2 reported.

Russian television reported that it too found evidence of searches carried out to excess. RTR also looked into defections of Islamist fighters.

A lot of countries have taken their own nationals out of Mali, but some refuse to go, such as a Swiss quarryman who has been in Mali for many years, Swiss television RSI reported.

In the relative calm of Bamako, the Thursday evening football match between Mali and Ghana stopped people talking about the war for a while, Spanish television TVE reported.

More about: ,

Copyright © 2013 euronews

| |

JavaScript is required in order to view this article’s accompanying video


Log in
Please enter your login details