Rappel events in Mali, where France has a military intervention to stop the Islamists from the offensive Nord.
Cette vast region since April 2012 is a sanctuary for Islamist groups, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Ansar Dine and the Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao) .
- JANUARY 2013--
-10: About 1,200 Islamist fighters seize Konna (center), threatening to continue their offensive south. Acting President Traoré Dioncounda request military aid from the France.
Des witnesses indicate that military aircraft carrying weapons and foreign troops arrived in Sévaré (70 km south of Konna), with the largest airport in the Mopti region, where the army has a command post opérationnel.
-11: The Malian army launched with the support of France, a cons-offensive to repel the advance of islamistes.
Le President François Hollande confirms the commitment of French forces. "Mali is facing aggression from the North terrorist elements which the world knows the brutality and fanaticism" .
La States Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) authorizes the immediate dispatch of troops under the Misma (ISAF support to Mali) .
-12: The French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian indicates that the airstrikes were carried out to block the advance columns of pickup armed Islamists and a French officer was tué.
-13: French aircraft bombed for the first time the Islamist positions in the North, Gao and Kidal. Four Rafale fighter planes destroy training camps and logistical depots armed groups near Gao (The Drian) .
Les French forces battle groups "well equipped, well armed and well trained" (entourage French President) .
Le French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says that the growth of Islamist groups to the south is stopped and France began to "take care of rear bases terrorists" in the North. "Algeria has unlimited authorized overflight of its territory," French planes, dit-il.
-14: Jihadis evacuate Northern cities they occupied after the bombing of the French forces, a spokesman for the Islamist evoking a "tactical withdrawal", but take Diabali locality, 400 km north of Bamako. They threaten to "strike at the heart of France" .
Les Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) are "ready to help" the French army by the "ground work" .
-15: France commits first ground troops to resume Diabali. Hundreds of Malian and French troops made their way to the town of West bombed by the French Air Force (controls). A column of thirty French armored vehicles left the capital in the direction of Nord.
M. Drian announced that the city was not Konna recovery to "terrorist groups" by the Malian forces, contrary to what was announced on January 12 the staff malien.
François Holland says that the French intervention has three objectives: "stop the aggression" Islamists, Bamako secure and preserve the territorial integrity of the country and that France was "not intended to remain in Mali" .
1.700 French soldiers are engaged in the operation Serval, including 800 on Malian territory itself. 2500 French troops should be deployed terme.
Réunion Bamako Chiefs of Staff, West Africa. The first Nigerian soldiers deployed in 24 hours. Many other African countries have already announced sending soldats.
La American diplomacy congratulates France's intervention against "terrorist" groups, stating that the United States already provide their French allies for assistance renseignement.
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