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Members of Ansar Dine, the Islamist terror group in northern Mali, are traveling to Burkina Faso to meet President Blaise Compaore. Burkina Faso’s president has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States to serve as a mediator for the parties involved in northern Mali.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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