00:00Mercenaries leaving Kidal, where they'd been assisting the Malian military.
00:04An organized retreat agreed with rebels who claimed control of the northern city following
00:09two days of clashes.
00:11Beginning on Saturday, the Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a Tuareg rebel group working
00:17alongside the Al-Qaeda affiliate Janim, orchestrated a series of attacks across the country.
00:24Fighting took place in Kidal and Gao to the north, in the central cities of Sivari and
00:29Mopti.
00:30To the south, in Bamika, Sadio Kamara was killed at home, and had been responsible for encouraging
00:37closer ties with Moscow, as Mali severed links with France, including the use of Russian
00:43mercenaries, a relationship that experts say could now be showing its inefficacy.
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