Scores of Africans recruited by Mali Qaeda offshoot official

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By Agence France-Presse (AFP)
A group of armed youths has just arrived in Gao from Burkina Faso, joining hundreds of other young African recruits who have come to sign up with radical Islamists controlling the northern Mali town. Dressed in khaki robes, the new batch of youths will join others from Senegal and Ivory Coast milling about in the scorching heat in the courtyard of a building the jihadists have made their headquarters. Duration: 00:36
07/19/2012