UN Security council condemns Mali coup

Ethnic Tuaregs who fought with Kadhafi returned to Mali and joined the Tuareg
rebellion against the government, said UN assistant secretary general B.
Lynn Pascoe.

“Of course there is a relationship because many of the Tuaregs had gone
to Libya because there they could earn more money working in the military,”
Pascoe told reporters.

On returning to Mali, the ex-Kadhafi fighters and the arms they brought from
Libya “clearly added more firepower and drive” to the
long-standing Tuareg rebellion in the north of the country.

The presence of the former Libya fighters was “one of the things which
fuelled the frustration and the anger of the (Mali rebel soldiers) because
they didn’t think they were being supported strongly enough in the fight
against the Tuaregs,” Pascoe said.

The UN envoy for West Africa Said Djinnit was among foreign officials in
Bamako at the time of the coup, while attending an African Union meeting.

Pascoe said Djinnit was working with West African governments and the African
Union to try to end the crisis. A number of African ministers were also
stuck in Bamako after the African Union meeting.

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