France keeps up Mali air strikes, African troop plan advances




 
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France keeps up Mali air strikes, African troop plan advances
 
January 15th, 2013  
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France keeps up Mali air strikes, African troop plan advances
BAMAKO (Reuters) - France kept up its air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali as plans to deploy African troops gathered pace on Tuesday amid concerns that delays could endanger a wider mission to dislodge al Qaeda and its allies. France has already poured hundreds of troops into Mali and carried out days of air strikes since Friday in a vast desert area seized last year by an Islamist alliance that combines al Qaeda's north African wing AQIM with Mali's home-grown MUJWA and Ansar Dine rebel groups. ...




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