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Smoke rises and shots are heard at the garrison town of Kati as Mali announces it has repelled a suicide raid by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists on a base used by the ruling military, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Bamako. IMAGES
Scenes at the prison where gunmen attacked a prison in Abuja. Suspected jihadists using guns and explosives blasted their way into a prison near the Nigerian capital, freeing hundreds of inmates in an operation to release jailed comrades, according to authorities. The brazen attack on the outskirts of Abuja came hours after an ambush on a presidential security convoy in the northwest, in a fresh example of the struggle Nigeria faces to overcome a security crisis. IMAGES
Malians take to the streets en masse after the military junta called for protests against stringent sanctions imposed by the West Africa bloc ECOWAS over delayed elections. IMAGES
Images of Mali's interim president, Colonel Assimi Goïta, leaving the Grand Mosque of Bamako and earlier during the Eid al-Adha prayer before two people tried to stab him. IMAGES
French soldiers have killed Malian jihadist Bayes Ag Bakabo, suspected of being responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two French journalists in 2013, Defence Minister Florence Parly says. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of the M5-RFP protest movement rally in Bamako to mark the anniversary of the first demonstration held on 5 June 2020, which led to the coup d'état against former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta a few weeks later. IMAGES
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