Bamako, Mali News

BAMAKO: The Malian army said Monday that soldiers and civilians had been summarily executed during a Tuareg offensive in the town of Aguelhok, as France accused the killers of adopting Al-Qaeda-style tactics.

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Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi's looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in northern Mali last month overwhelmed the remote garrison.

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As Mali's army confronts attacks from ethnic Tuareg separatists, the country's president is battling some tough critics: the wives of military personnel who grilled him for nearly two hours on state television about the government's failure to put down the rebellion.

After fighting for Qaddafi as he struggled to stay in power, Tuaregs helped themselves to sophisticated weaponry before returning to Mali Youths protest in front of national television headquarters in Bamako, Mali, on Thursday.

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Heavy weapons fire rang out in and around the northern Malian town of Kidal overnight, residents said on Saturday, in a sign that a Tuareg-led rebellion was nearing the most significant target yet in two weeks of clashes.

Hundreds of Malians set up barricades and burned tyres in the streets of Bamako on Thursday, shutting down the capital in protests against the government's handling of a rebellion that has seized several northern towns.

Protestors surrounded the palace of Mali's president on Thursday, angry about the government's handling of attacks by Tuareg rebels in the country's north.

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Ghana's Black Stars and the Eagles of Mali will be meeting for the first time at the senior level at a major tournament when the two sides lock horns on Saturday in Franceville.

A local official in Mali confirmed that Tuareg fighters had opened a fifth front, attacking a town in the center of the country only hours after attacking one in the remote east.

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