{"id":876,"date":"2010-03-03T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/6a9f35cc6c4bcb97ab746c076935bf12#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:32:49","slug":"mali-crime-and-guns-in-the-north-threaten-health-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/mali-crime-and-guns-in-the-north-threaten-health-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Crime and guns in the north threaten health work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9decins du Monde Belgium reports that three of their health workers were carjacked in the desert north of Youwarou Cercle, Kidal Region on 2 March.  Men armed with AK-47s stole a landrover and abandoned the workers in the desert.  The MMB workers were part of a anti-Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm) clinic in Youwarou.  Sadly, such car robberies are not unknown, especially after the wave of weapons that flooded the region during the 2007-2008 insurgency.  Similar robberies from aid agencies were reported after the 1990s and the 2006 violence, with cars taken across the border to Mauritania or as far away as Morocco to be sold.  While I&#039;m sure someone will blame &quot;terrorists&quot; it seems clear if you give young men guns and no jobs, especially in a region with a centuries old tradition of trade \/ smuggling, you&#039;ll get car robberies.  I would hope government might deal with these issues before calling in AFRICOM with their missiles and bombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9decins du Monde Belgium reports that three of their health workers were carjacked in the desert north of Youwarou Cercle, Kidal Region on 2 March.  Men armed with AK-47s stole a landrover and abandoned the workers in the desert.  The MMB workers were part of a anti-Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm) clinic in Youwarou.  Sadly, such car robberies are not unknown, especially after the wave of weapons that flooded the region during the 2007-2008 insurgency.  Similar robberies from aid agencies were reported after the 1990s and the 2006 violence, with cars taken across the border to Mauritania or as far away as Morocco to be sold.  While I&#39;m sure someone will blame &quot;terrorists&quot; it seems clear if you give young men guns and no jobs, especially in a region with a centuries old tradition of trade \/ smuggling, you&#39;ll get car robberies.  I would hope government might deal with these issues before calling in AFRICOM with their missiles and bombs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/mali-crime-and-guns-in-the-north-threaten-health-work\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,174],"tags":[320,241,249,322,229,321],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1003,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/mali-creeping-famine-in-the-north\/","url_meta":{"origin":876,"position":0},"title":"Mali: Creeping famine in the north","date":"April 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Issikta blog republishes an urgent appeal from the mayors of Adielhoc and Tinzawaten communes in Kidal Region, northeast Mali. 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