MALI-ATTACKS/FABIUS French and Malian foreign ministers meet over security in north Mali

Record ID: 355237

  • Title: MALI-ATTACKS/FABIUS French and Malian foreign ministers meet over security in north Mali
  • Date: 9th March 2015
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 9, 2015) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF FRENCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY FRENCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER LAURENT FABIUS AND MALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY ABDOULAYE DIOP POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND LEAVING ROOM VARIOUS OF ROUND TABLE WITH FABIUS AND DIOP
  • Embargoed: 24th March 2015 12:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABBEVFTCG5VO9XYFN91HZQ3Y97
  • Story Text: The French and Malian foreign ministers met in Paris on Monday (March 9) after several recent attacks in Mali this weekend.
    Unknown attackers fired dozens of rockets towards a U.N. base on the outskirts of the north Malian town of Kidal early on Sunday, killing at least three people, the United Nations said.
    These recent incidents point to ongoing unrest two years after France helped retake the desert north from al Qaeda-linked militants.
    France launched a U.N.-backed military intervention in its former colony in January 2013 to drive Islamic militants from towns in northern Mali which they had seized a year earlier.
    The militants were scattered but continue to mount an insurgency against the Malian army and U.N. troops based there.
    A Sahara-based Islamist group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a rare attack in Mali's southern capital Bamako that killed five people, including two foreigners.
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