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1. News - World - MALI

   French enter last Islamist stronghold in Mali

   Posted Jan 31st 2013, 02:22pm by AFP

   ... Bamako and until recently was controlled by the Islamists of Ansar Dine. Ansar Dine and two other Islamist groups took advantage of the chaos following a military coup in Bamako last March ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1140184/french-enter-last-islamist-stronghold-mali
2. News - World - MALI

   African forces boost Mali offensive, concern over abuses

   Posted Jan 24th 2013, 05:33pm by AFP

   ... effort by our African friends.” A Malian defence official said that 160 soldiers from Burkina Faso had arrived in Markala, 270 kilometres north of the capital Bamako, to “take up the baton from ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1135229/african-forces-boost-mali-offensive-concern-over-abuses
3. News - World - MALI

   French-backed Malian troops reclaim key town from rebels

   Posted Jan 18th 2013, 10:00pm by AFP

   ... troops marked a victory over the rebels after days of fighting in Konna, a key town about 700 kilometres from the capital Bamako. “We have wrested total control of Konna after inflicting heavy ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1131221/french-backed-malian-troops-reclaim-key-town-rebels
4. News - World - MALI

   Three Mali Islamists killed in Timbuktu ‘clean-up’ raid

   Posted Apr 02nd 2013, 01:19am by Agence France-Presse in Bamako

   ... News World Mali Crisis Al-Qaeda Agence France-Presse in Bamako At least three Islamists were killed in Timbuktu on Monday during a sweep by French and Malian soldiers after a deadly weekend battle in the fabled Saharan city, a military source said. “During our clean-up operation, the Mali and French armies destroyed a public building in the centre of town where the terrorists ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1205147/three-mali-islamists-killed-timbuktu-clean-raid
5. News - World - MALI

   Hollande says Mali terrorism forced back but 'not defeated yet'

   Posted Feb 03rd 2013, 12:15pm by Agence France-Presse in Bamako

   ... “France will stay by your side as long as necessary, as long as it takes for Africans themselves... to replace us,” he told a large crowd in the capital, Bamako, at a monument commemorating Mali’s ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1142417/hollande-says-mali-terrorism-forced-back-not-defeated-yet
6. News - World - MALI

   French-led forces take control of key north Mali town, US to help refuel warplanes

   Posted Jan 27th 2013, 10:14am by Agence France-Presse in Bamako

   ... the capital Bamako, 1,200 kilometres to the southwest. “A first contingent of Malian, Chadian and Niger troops are presently in Gao to help secure it,” a Malian security source told news agency AFP ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1137044/french-led-forces-take-control-key-north-mali-town-us-help-refuel
7. News - World - MALI

   French, Malian troops push north as African defence chiefs meet

   Posted Jan 26th 2013, 05:04pm by Agence France-Presse in Bamako

   ... by financing and logistical problems. While a fraction of the African forces have arrived in Bamako and are slowly deploying elsewhere, the French and Malian forces have done all of the fighting. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1136661/french-malian-troops-push-north-african-defence-chiefs-meet
8. News - World - MALI

   France increases troop numbers in Mali and prepares for assault

   Posted Jan 16th 2013, 10:32am by Associated Press in Bamako

   ... News World Mali French troops Al-Qaeda Associated Press in Bamako After a punishing bombing campaign failed to halt the advance of al-Qaeda-linked fighters, France pledged on Tuesday to triple the size of its force in Mali, sending in hundreds more troops as it prepared for a land assault to dislodge the militants occupying the northern half of the country. The move reversed ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1129260/france-increases-troop-numbers-mali-and-prepares-assault
9. News - World - MALI

   Mali war escalates with French intervention

   Posted Jan 12th 2013, 11:10am by Associated Press in Bamako

   ... airport throughout the night. Colonel Abdrahmane Baby, a military operations adviser for the foreign affairs ministry, confirmed in the Malian capital of Bamako that French forces had arrived ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1126257/mali-war-escalates-french-intervention
10. News - World - MALI

    Islamists claim victory over Tuaregs in north Mali

    Posted Nov 19th 2012, 03:14pm by Agence France-Presse in Bamako

    ... that Bamako would eventually hold talks both with the Tuareg MNLA and Ansar Dine, another of the Islamist groups controlling northern Mali. “Dialogue is inevitable,” he said. Both groups were made up ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1086093/islamists-claim-victory-over-tuaregs-north-mali

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