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    <text>Mali troops and Russian mercanaries withdraw from Kidal after yesterday’s attacks. </text>
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    <text>Flights resume at the Modibo Keita International Airport in Bamako following yesterday's attacks. </text>
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    <text>Multiple armed groups launch several coordinated attacks across Mali, including in the capital Bamako. </text>
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    <text>Tuareg rebels say they have seized control of Kidal in northern Mali after overrunning government forces. </text>
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    <text>Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin claims responsibility for attacks on several Mali Armed Forces positions near Senegal in Mali. The Malian army spokesperson said 80 attackers were neutralized while there were no details on casualties among soldiers. </text>
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    <text>The Macina Liberation Front launches an attack on Mali's largest military base in Bamako. One soldier and six of the attackers are killed. </text>
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      <text>Malian Foreign Affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop says in Moscow that Mali &quot;may ask Russia for help&quot; due to its security situation, with Diop saying that &quot;the very existence of the Malian state is under threat&quot;. </text>
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    <text>Malian Foreign Affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop says that Mali &quot;may ask Russia for help&quot; due to the country's security situation, with Diop also saying that &quot;the very existence of the Malian state is under threat&quot;. </text>
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    <text>Nine soldiers are killed and nine others are wounded during a long exchange of fire with armed groups in Bandiagara, Mali. </text>
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      <text>A Togolese peacekeeper has died after being wounded yesterday in a jihadist attack on a MINUSMA base near Douentza in Mopti, central Mali, which wounded 28 peacekeepers, according to United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. </text>
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      <text>A Togolese peacekeeper has died after being wounded yesterday in a jihadist attack on a MINUSMA base near Douentza in central Mali, according to UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. </text>
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    <text>A Togolese peacekeeper has died after being wounded yesterday in an attack on a MINUSMA base near Douentza in Mopti, central Mali, which wounded 28 peacekeepers, according to United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. </text>
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      <text>Gunmen on motorbikes attack a military base in Bamba, Gao Region, Mali, killing at least 25 soldiers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. </text>
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    <text>Gunmen on motorbikes attack a military base in Bamba, Gao, Mali, killing at least 25 soldiers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. </text>
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  <text>Malian troops and Russian mercenaries withdraw from Kidal after yesterday’s attacks. </text>
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