pLast year, Islamist groups swept into northern Mali, imposing a harsh form of retributive justice marked by executions and amputations. Fleeing their oppressive rule and the ensuing fighting, nearly a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/19/mali-is-about-to-have-a-refugee-crisis/"230,000 people/a have been displaced in Mali since early 2012, the Commission on Population Movements reported. There also are an estimated 144,500 Malian refugees in the region, including 54,000 in Mauritania, 50,000 in Niger, 38,800 in Burkina Faso and 1,500 in Algeria./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/afraid-and-exhausted-striking-portraits-of-malis-refugees/2013/01/29/dc3923f0-6a46-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/28065f10/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984534807/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/28065f10/kg/342/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984534807/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/28065f10/kg/342/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984534807/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/28065f10/kg/342/a2t.img" border="0"/