MALIAN ARMY WITHDRAWS FROM KEY TESSALIT MILITARY CAMP. (PHOTO).

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 Malian army withdraws from key Tessalit military camp: sources Mali’s army and its Russian mercenary allies have surrendered Camp Tessalit, a strategic military post in the north, multiple sources told the AFP news agency on Friday. An official from the Tuareg-led separatist group claimed soldiers and mercenaries at the camp had "surrendered", following a fierce fight over the weekend. Simultaneous attacks in Mali by militants linked to Al Qaeda and separatist Tuareg rebels on April 25 showed how fighters ​from different groups with different goals were able to strike at the heart of the West African country's military government. Gunfire and explosions were reported in the capital Bamako and around a large military base outside the capital, as well as Gao and central areas, as gunfire continuing in the northern city of Kidal. Defence minister Sadio Camara was killed at his residence in Kati, a garrison town near the capital, Bamako, following the fierce weekend fighting...

NADINE GORDIMER,SOUTH AFRICAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER,DIES AT 90.

Nobel Prize for literature laureate Nadine Gordimer attends a memorial for [Nelson Mandela's biographer and former Drum editor late Anthony Sampson] in Johannesburg February 8, 2005. - RTXN8CI           Nadine Gordimer,a South African Author and 1991 Nobel prize winner who became one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid,has died at the age of 90.She past away peacefully at her Johanesburg home on sunday.A representative of her family said ''She cared most deeply about South Africa,its culture,its people and its on going struggle to realize its new Democracy''.May her soul rest in peace,amen.

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