PARIS (Reuters) - Mali's foreign minister said on Tuesday that nations in the Sahara were not doing enough to stop an Islamist threat spreading across the region and urged more intelligence-sharing and joint military operations.
In an interview with Reuters, Tieman Coulibaly also accused Mali's Tuareg separatist rebels of "Ku Klux Klan" abuses by persecuting non-Tuaregs in Kidal and said this did not bode well for talks aimed at including the north-eastern town in next month's election of a new president to complete a post-coup transition to democracy.
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