MALI. Update on the military intervention in Mali

SUR FIELD MILITAIRE

The bombing Diabali

> France and strengthens its dispositif

-French forces bombed the morning of Tuesday, January 15 Diabali locality in western Mali, taken yesterday by the fighters islamistes.

-At the same time, France announced the deployment of 2,500 troops forward. A column of forty French armored vehicles from Côte d'Ivoire arrived in the night of Monday to Tuesday Bamako.

SUR FIELD DIPLOMATIQUE

> Meeting of Heads of Staff ouest-africains

-Chiefs of Staff in West Africa gathered in Bamako to prepare for the "liberation" of northern Mali.

-France has informed its partners in the Security Council on the progress of its intervention in Mali and obtained their support in principle although some question the following événements.

-François Hollande, arrived Tuesday morning in the UAE, Dubai has been mentioned the possibility of a "military aid" from pays.

IN FRANCE

> Mamère assumes a "dissenting voice"

Green MP

Le Christmas Mamère called "propaganda" the reasons given by the government to engage, assuming a "dissenting voice" .

I hear the propaganda, I mean what is said by the military, "he said in the corridors of the Assembly." Soldiers simply repeat what they are told at the highest level. "

-A National Assembly each parliamentary group has asked a question about the French intervention at the meeting of current issues in government. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Assembly, (...)

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