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     BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe must help restore security in Mali, hit by
   an Islamist insurgency in its north, and could lend support through
   military training to an African-led mission, Germany's Foreign Minister
   said on Tuesday. Guido Westerwelle said...

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   September 28, 2012.

   Credit: Reuters/Mike Segar

   BERLIN | Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:13pm BST

   BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe must help restore security in Mali, hit by an
   Islamist insurgency in its north, and could lend support through
   military training to an African-led mission, Germany's Foreign Minister
   said on Tuesday.

   Guido Westerwelle said after talks in Berlin with the U.N.'s envoy to
   the Sahel, Romano Prodi, he was extremely worried about the situation.

   "From the north of Mali you need to cross only one international border
   and you are at the Mediterranean. If the north collapses, if terrorist
   training camps spring up and it becomes a haven for global terrorism,
   this won't just endanger Mali and North Africa, it will also threaten
   us in Europe."

   "There will be support from Germany and Europe, it is not about
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   Regional leaders and international organisations including the African
   Union met in Mali's capital Bamako last week to seek a response to the
   occupation of the north by al Qaeda-linked Islamists, but failed to
   resolve differences on how to tackle the growing security threat.

   "In Mali we have the division of a country which in fact wants to and
   must be reunited. I absolutely agree with Minister Westerwelle that
   there cannot be a direct intervention by Europe. It's a problem that
   needs above all to be solved by the Africans," Prodi said.

   "We need to look at all alternatives and not fixate on a military
   option," he added.

   Mali descended into chaos in March when soldiers toppled the president,
   leaving a power vacuum that enabled Tuareg rebels to seize two-thirds
   of the country. But Islamist extremists, some allied with al Qaeda,
   hijacked the revolt and then imposed harsh Islamic law in a desert