(Reuters) - Mali's government and Tuareg-led rebels have agreed to cease hostilities as a way to ease tensions while they hold U.N.-sponsored peace negotiations, Algeria's government said on Thursday.
The talks hosted by Algiers, the fifth round of recent negotiations, aim to end decades of uprisings in the north to win a form of self-rule and more rights from the southern government in Bamako.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/us-mali-talks-idUSKBN0LN1UJ20150219
