4 Apr 2012

West's foreign policy in Africa, a catalyst in Mali coup and White Men Murdering Unarmed African Americans

Frustration at the way in which Mali's president is dealing with a Tuareg uprising has led its military to take a dangerous gamble. It did not take long for the Libyan conflict to spill over borders in the Sahel region
- and now Mali seems to have paid the highest price so far following a coup by disgruntled soldiers. The trouble began when hundreds of Malian combatants who had fought to defend the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, fled back home with weapons at the end of last year and formed the most powerful Tuareg-led rebel group the region have known - the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA). Source


At least 5 controversial cases involving white men murdering unarmed African Americans just in the past two months, Protesters say the killings are racially motivated. This edition of News Analysis asks: Does institutional racism exist in the US and that how far the US is from a society free of racism?