Taliban Head Quarters in Africa Just a slight correction. It is not the Tuareg rebels that control 1/3 of the country. It is now Al-Qaeda, known as the AQIM in the Sahara that now control 2/3's of Mali. It is feared that the Taliban are quickly moving operations from Pakistan to Mali.
You can read more as was discribed in Weds National Post - page A12, entitled "Al-Qaeda and its allies have seized a swathe of Africa - Mali's new masters".