
World Bulletin / News Desk
The African Union has asked the U.N. Security Council for a resolution that would allow military intervention in Mali, the AU's commission chairman Jean Ping said.
"ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) ... has asked us to go to the U.N. Security Council, which we have done," Ping told France 24.
"The (African Union) Peace and Security Council is meeting in New York the Security Council and one of the questions to be discussed will be this (Mali force)," he said.





