Who is Joseph Kony?

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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Idris wrote:
    A coup d'état in Mali last week, (hmmm)

    The Leader of the Coup ( 'Amadou Sanogo') say's (After the US demands that he and the other renegades release the ousted Leader and restore the Government)

    “These people are safe and sound. We will not touch a hair on their heads. I will hand them over to the courts so that the Malian people know the truth,” Captain Amadou Sanogo said. (apparently partly because Amandou has issues with the way the army is being used and not 'properly supported'.


    Canadian Government say's

    "Canada utterly condemns this attack on democracy by a faction of Mali’s military," Baird said. "We call on those behind this coup to immediately withdraw so that constitutional order, peace and stability may be restored."

    ('AFRICOM', the Push for Africa, it's all heating up now)
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    and some Kony news..The African U/UN are sending 5.000 troops to go after him (Kony) and all his 300 child strong army. (That starts today)

    Yeah I've been following the Coup a little. I guess the soldiers were looting too... But the leader of the military has told them to stop.
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    Yeah I've been following the Coup a little. I guess the soldiers were looting too... But the leader of the military has told them to stop.

    Yea

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/24/world/africa/mali-coup/index.html?section=cnn_latest
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Idris wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    Yeah I've been following the Coup a little. I guess the soldiers were looting too... But the leader of the military has told them to stop.

    Yea

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/24/world/africa/mali-coup/index.html?section=cnn_latest

    Roger that

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/20 ... 17577.html :wink:
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Leader of Mali military coup trained in U.S.

    The leader of a military coup in the West African country of Mali received military training in the United States on “several” occasions, a U.S. defense official said.

    Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led a renegade military faction that on Thursday deposed Mali’s democratically elected president, visited the United States several times to receive professional military education, including basic officer training, said Patrick Barnes, a U.S. Africa Command official based in Washington.

    Barnes said he could not immediately provide further details about the duration or nature of Sanogo’s participation in the International Military Education and Training program. The State Department funds that program, and foreign officers are generally selected by U.S. Embassy officials.

    “If this situation is not resolved democratically, the remaining portion of that aid could very seriously be affected,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Friday.

    “The actions of the mutineers run contrary to everything that is taught in U.S. military schools, where students are exposed to American concepts of the role of a military in a free society,” said Hilary F. Renner, a spokeswoman for the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs.

    In appearances on African television since Thursday, Sanogo has stated that he received U.S. military and intelligence training but did not reveal details.

    The coup leaders have pledged a return to democracy and said they deposed President Amadou Toumani Toure because of his incompetence in combating theTuareg insurgency, which has been fueled by the return of Malian fighters from Libya.

    Reuters reported that soldiers looted gas stations and hijacked cars in the capital, Bamako, and the African Union said it had assurances that Toure was safe.

    Rumors swirled of an imminent countercoup led by Toure loyalists and that Sanogo had been killed, a suggestion denied on state television.The coup comes a month before Mali — one of the few established democracies in the region — was to hold a presidential election.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/leader-of-mali-military-coup-trained-in-us/2012/03/23/gIQAS7Q6WS_story.html
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    I guess I can/should post this here? (Africom Related)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9cdVtwUhQ

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