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AU sees Mali military intervention as "last resort" Friday, 13 Jul 2012

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations are giving priority to finding a peaceful political solution to the problem of divided Mali but are preparing for a military intervention as a last resort, the African Union's top peace and security official said on Friday.  Full Article

 

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A girl draws animals in her schoolbook at Pibor Primary School in Pibor, South Sudan, June 25, 2012. For decades, Sudan's southerners fought the country's predominately Arab rulers in the north. More than two million people died before the fighting ended in a peace deal in 2005. In a referendum promised by the pact, 99 percent of the southerners chose to secede, and on July 9, 2011, the flag of South Sudan was raised over Juba, the rickety new capital. Picture taken June 25, 2012. To match Special Report SOUTH-SUDAN/GOVERNED REUTERS/Adriane Ohanesian
For the world's newest nation, a rocky start

In December, the people of this town watched the national army stand by while thousands of young men from a rival ethnic group stormed in for a cattle raid. The interlopers shot and macheted hundreds of people, burned homes and stole tens of thousands of cows.  Full Article 

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