Algeria to submit proposals on mixed migration

Algeria to submit proposals on mixed migration Algerian National Consultative Commission for Human Rights Promotion and Protection (CNCPPDH) will submit proposals on the mixed migration in Algeria to the President by the end of 2012, the Commission’s president Mustapha Farouk Ksentini announced Saturday, warning of the growing numbers of Malian and African migrants in the country, while Mali's Tuareg rebels advanced saying they had seized the town of Anefis between the key cities of Gao and Kidal.
Ksentini said in a press release on Saturday that the issue of mixed migration in Algeria has become a top concern due to the unrest in neighbouring Mali, stressing that the CNCPPDH is preparing proposals addressing this issue.
CNCPPDH chairman’s warnings coincide with the advancement of Mali's Tuareg rebels after seizing the town of Anefis.
According to AFP news agency, Tuareg rebels were able to strengthen their hold on the north, and their National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) said it had seized the town of Anefis between the key cities Gao and Kidal.
The MNLA said on its website that it would  "continue the offensive to dislodge the Malian army and its administration from all the towns of Azawad", their professed homeland in the north of the bow-tie shaped West African nation.
Meanwhile, Mali’s coup generals are facing a global backlash for staging a coup over the government's handling of the insurrection.
The African Union temporarily suspended Mali, Europe froze aid and the United States threatened to do the same amid a chorus of rebukes over the coup in a country key to fighting drug trafficking and extremism.
On Saturday, the coup Captain Amadou Sanogo has pledged the safe release of three top African foreign officials stranded in Bamako after the putsch, according to an African Union source.
AU Commission Chief Jean Ping spoke to Sanogo on the phone on Friday and was assured the foreign ministers of Kenya and Zimbabwe as well as a Tunisian secretary of state in charge of Arab and African affairs would return safely.
Rebel soldiers calling themselves the National Committee for the Establishment of Democracy seized control of the capital, accusing the government of failing to tackle terrorism and put down a Tuareg-led insurrection in the north.