Progress On Reconciliation

The latest announcement by the Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat) re-affirming their allegiance to al-Qaeda should come as no surprise. Indeed, with the authorities keeping the door open to militants laying down arms (despite the expiration of the six month long amnesty) and recent gestures towards the Islamic vote, it is likely that the group feels anxious about a further erosion of its standing. A breakaway group formed by former members of the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA, Armed Islamic Group) during the civil war in the 1990s, the GSPC had

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