(Reuters) - Malian rebels who declared an independent Islamic state in the country's north said on Sunday they would impose sharia but not in a strict form. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), which has fought to make Mali's northern Azawad region an autonomous state, on Saturday signed an agreement to merge with Islamist Ansar Dine rebels seeking to impose sharia across Mali.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - An agreement between northern Mali's MNLA Tuareg rebels and al Qaeda-linked Islamist group Ansar Dine to create an Islamic state in the vast Azawad desert has run into trouble over how strictly to impose sharia la... Read Post
Mali moved a step closer to being broken in two on Sunday when al-Qaeda-linked Islamists and Tuareg rebels declared the nation's north an independent country to be ruled according to sharia law. The announcement, from Ansar Dine and... Read Post
Yesterday, the northern Malian rebel movement the MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad) declared that they had achieved their military goal – the Azawad, the area in Mali for which they claim independence, had be... Read Post