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Tuareg rebels dismiss arms pledge

Tuesday 19 August 2008

Dismissing previous reports that Niger's Tuarag rebels were ready put down arms against Malian opponents, rebel leader Aghaly ag Alambo said his group would not give up its fighting or its weapons.

Tuesday 19 August 2008

By Reuters

 

NIAMEY - Niger’s Tuareg rebel leader Aghaly ag Alambo said on Tuesday his fighters would not lay down their arms and a pledge he made in Libya at the weekend was in fact a message from a Malian rebel group.

 

“President Aghaly ag Alambo never referred to an MNJ release of prisoners, ceasefire or laying down of arms,” the Niger Justice Movement said in a statement posted on its website.

 

Niger state television broadcast Alambo’s comments on Monday, translated from the Tuareg Tamasheq language, including a pledge to lay down weapons and join a mediation process led by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.


 


 

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