Moscow - Paris video conference "The situation in Africa: Metastasis of the "Arab Spring"?". The beginning of 2013 was marked by an escalation of tension in a number of African states. On January 7, Islamists who had controlled northern Mali since March 2012 launched an offensive on a position of government troops. France was the first to respond to a call for assistance from the Government of Mali, sending 1.4 thousand peacekeepers to the country, who, along with soldiers of the Economic Community of West African States, became actively involved in the fight against the rebels. Following Mali, alarms came from Algeria, where on January 16 Al-Qaeda insurgents took hostage staff of the gas industry.
The situation in Africa
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