Coup d'etat in Mali

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

What happened to the President? Is he locked up the the guy from Niger or his he resisting.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

A consequence of the fall of Qaddafi in Libya. Tuareg's who where serving as mercenaries in Libya returning to resume their rebellion against the Blacks and the military not liking the Presidents "soft" approach to fighting them. So expect lots of massacres on Tuareg's, torture, mass rape, killing of livestock etc. now and Tuareg retaliation on "black" villages. Tragic.

Indeed. I have a feeling that a lot of ex Qadaffi era military leaders will come down from Libya and arm the Tuaregs as well.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Why are the South Sudanese separatists called Freedom Fighters, when the Azawad separatists are called rebels and (without any proof) al-Qaida supporters?

Because the South Sudanese are Christian. The media also conveniently forgot to mention that South Sudan is an authoritarian single-party state while they got mass erections out of South Sudan's independence.

Still not as bad as the genocidal military regime of Omar Al Bashir in Khartoum.