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control Kidal now, but they also want to take Gao, the largest city in the north, as well as Menaka and Timbuktu, to complete the self-declared state of Azawad. Despite having differing ideologies
control of the northern city of Kidal in a coordinated offensive on April 25 and April 26, which struck at the heart of the West African country’s military government. One of those attacks killed
Kidal and the strategic base of Tessalit, the military is repositioning certain units as part of its response, Maiga said, without providing details. In addition to killing Camara by driving a car laden with explosives
control, Mali’s 24 million people are sitting atop a vast, untapped gold resource, estimated at about 800 tonnes of proven reserves, the third largest in Africa after South Africa (5,000 tonnes) and Ghana
Kidal, Mopti, Sevare and Gao. Tuareg rebels claimed participation in the assaults. Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in the attacks. The attacks have exposed security vulnerabilities in the country, which once was a beacon