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| Nine killed in clashes between separatists and Islamists in Mali |
| 2014-05-03 |
| [Beirut Daily Star] Nine people were killed in festivities in northern Mali this week between suspected Islamists and Tuareg separatist forces, separatist and military sources said on Friday. The festivities north of the city of Timbuktu involved separatists and suspected members of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), a group linked to al Qaeda, said a separatist front man and two military sources who declined to be identified. "The fighting is over," said Akay Ag Mohammed, a front man in the northern town of Kidal for the separatist National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). "The MNLA fighters have returned to Kidal. We took seven prisoners and killed nine of the enemy." |
| Posted by:Fred |