Several communities in Mali’s northern Menaka Region have turned to al Qaeda’s men in the face of extreme pressure and violence from the Islamic State’s local wing.

Belmokhtar empire based on crime
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Mali’s Kidal still waits for resolution
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US military presence in Africa growing in small ways
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Timbuktu waits for peace dividend
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Mali’s Kidal Still Waits for Resolution
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Sahel military forces train together
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An AP reporter’s quest to find bodies of victims killed by Malian military ends in the desert
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Insight: Revival of Islamists in Mali tests French, UN nerve
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Less than a week after both parties agreed to establish an independent state in northern Mali and implement sharia law, Tuareg rebels have publicly renounced the accord signed with the al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar Dine group.
