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A mortar attack on a United Nations peacekeeping base in northern Mali on Saturday killed three people and injured 20, the U.N. said.
Malian commandos have killed several Islamic militants who seized a hotel and murdered as many as 27 people in Bamako, the nation’s capitol.
Islamist group al-Mourabitoun on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on a nightclub in Mali’s capital which killed five people, including two Westerners, earlier that morning.
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
Villagers flee their homes with their belongings a day after gunmen killed 16 people in their village of Tiortyui, some 30 kilometres away from Makurdi, in Nigeria's central Benue state. Eight people were killed in another attack in a village nearby, bringing the toll to 24, as violence caused by heavily armed criminal gangs intensifies across the region. IMAGES
A map shows the city of Tessalit in Mali. French forces have killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in Mali, French Defence Minister Florence Parly says. Droukdel was killed on Thursday in the northwest Mali town of Tessalit. "Many of his close associates" were also "neutralised", Parly says. IMAGES
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