heya readers...just posting the last 2 blogs that went unposted. but first some UPDATES (blog follows): Alhamdoulilah! for Senegal's peaceful elections - and now see what's up with Youssou! http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/04/20124423740606908.html And please now put your focus and thoughts to Mali, not the coup, but rather to the insurgence of Tuareg rebels, allegedly paired with al-Qaeda fighters who have taken over northern Mali. I walked those towns and met those people and think of them now struggling for their survival, freedom and decency under the rule of the rebels and fighters. I'm trying to get a piece written on the refugees in Bamako, wish me luck, and keep updated: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2012/04/13/malis-fracturing-ethnic-divides (though unfortunately, this tells you nothing of the life of refugees, and those
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