UN Special Envoy for Sahel Romano Prodi answers a journalist’s questions after a meeting with Malian interim president on January 10, 2013 in Bamako. Armed Islamists who control northern Mali on Thursday entered an area under government control in the country’s center, an Ansar Dine official told AFP, vowing they would push further south. AFP PHOTO / HABIBOU KOUYATE (Photo credit should read HABIBOU KOUYATE/AFP/Getty Images)
