Mali+Historical+Timeline

=Early Mali History Timeline by Carol Thompson= (underlining and parentheses are mine)

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=================================================================== =[|BBC News]Mali Historical Timeline: A Chronology of Key Events=

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=War in the Northern Mali Desert Region=

===__In the early 1990s the nomadic Tuareg of the north began an insurgency over land and cultural rights that persists to this day, despite central government attempts at military and negotiated solutions.__===

===The Saharan branch of al-Qaeda was quick to move into this increasingly lawless area, and seized control of the Tuareg north after the March 2012 military coup, effectively seceding from the rest of Mali and establishing a harsh form of Islamic law.===