TY  - SER
AU  - McGregor, Andrew
TI  - GATIA: : a Profile of Northern Mali’s Pro-Government Tuareg and Arab Militia
KW  - Tuareg
KW  - Malí
N2  - A little more than a year after a French and African Union military intervention drove an Islamist coalition from their bases in northern Mali in early 2013, Prime Minister Moussa Mara ignited the seething tensions in the area with an ill-advised visit to the Kidal region (a stronghold of separatist Tuareg rebels) in mid-May 2014. Within days, the Malian Army was in full flight from angered Tuareg insurgents in Kidal and many other sites of strategic importance in the north, including towns along the main drug-trafficking and smuggling routes that connect northern Mali to the northern Sahara and the Mediterranean coast
UR  - http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/TerrorismMonitorVol13Issue7_02.pdf
ER  -