North Africa: Bamako to host security conference

A regional conference on security on the Sahelo-Saharan strip running from Mauritania to Darfur, in Sudan, will be organised in Bamako in the coming weeks, President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali announced here. Toure said the decision followed the endorsement of the proceedings of consultations between experts from two countries in the region, Algeria and Libya, by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Sahelo-Saharan countries.