Source: Guardian
Country: Mali
Refugees speak of escaping fierce fighting and sharia rules in towns such as Timbuktu as Islamist rebels advance south
The city of Ségou used to welcome visitors with a sign for its flagship industrial zone – a scheme designed to encourage industry in this impoverished part of northern Mali. But now the town has a new welcome notice. Someone has scrawled in broken French in huge red letters on the side of a wall on the outskirts of town: "Our soldiers are at war!"