Burkinabe Foreign Minister Djibrille Bas

Burkinabe Foreign Minister Djibrille Bassole (R), who is leading the search for a way out of the 20-week-old emergency that has seen Islamists seize Mali's north, gestures on August 7, 2012 as meets with the Ansar Dine Islamist group leader Iyad Ag Ghaly (L), next to Al Ghabass Ag Intalla (C), prince of Kidal and member of Ansar Dine in Kidal, at the Kidal airport in northern Mali. Ghaly, who wants to see Mali adopt sharia law, vowed on August 7 to support regional mediation efforts to resolve the political crisis in the ruptured west African nation. AFP PHOTO / ROMARIC OLLO HIEN (Photo credit should read ROMARIC OLLO HIEN/AFP/GettyImages)