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Jan 09, 2013, 09.22 AM IST
The head of the African Union, President of Benin Boni Yayi, called on Tuesday for a global coalition to intervene against Islamist rebels in northern Mali, but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he had no plans to join the UN-sanctioned force.
The capture of the northern two-thirds of Mali by Islamist groups has sown fears that it could become a center for radicals to plot international attacks, and Yayi said terrorism was an international problem that required an international response. "It's not...a purely African question. It's a world question, an international question," Yayi told a news conference with Harper after their ministers signed a foreign investment protection agreement. Harper said Canada would provide humanitarian aid and signaled great concern about the situation, but said: "The government of Canada is not considering a direct Canadian military mission." The 15-nation UN Security Council in December unanimously authorized the deployment of an African-led military force to help defeat al-Qaeda and other Islamist militants in northern Mali.
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