By Yassin Abdelkader Al-Zawi, Researcher in African Affairs: As I follow the breaking news, if I may call it that, about what is happening in the Republic of Mali, my memory takes me back twenty years to when I visited this West African country on April 6, 2006. There, I witnessed a part of the "religious" diplomacy that Libya was undertaking at that time. I attended the congregational prayer in Timbuktu on the occasion of the Prophet's birthday…
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By Yassin Abdelkader Al-Zawi, Researcher in African Affairs: As I follow the breaking news, if I may call it that, about what is happening in the Republic of Mali, my memory takes me back twenty years to when I visited this West African country on April 6, 2006. There, I witnessed a part of the "religious" diplomacy that Libya was undertaking at that time. I attended the congregational prayer in Timbuktu on the occasion of the Prophet's birthday…