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...

PRESIDENT JONATHAN SAID NIGERIA ECONOMY IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST,TRUE OR FALSE?.

                           Today tuesday,President Goodluck Jonathan made this statement in Port Harcourt at the inauguration of Enugu Port Harcourt Enugu intercity train service that ''We have mangeged the economy in Africa and one of the largest in the world.We have changed the course of history with the railway system in the last 30 years from the neglected sector to a rehabilitated and revitalised one by rehabilitating the existing narrow gauge railway lines,the operations and maintenance.We have introduced programmes that have impacted positively on the lives of the people and national agenda''.Adeseyi Sijuwade,Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation {NRC},noted that the rehabilitation of Enugu Port Harcourt Railway had many challenges.30 metres of the rail line was washed out by Aba gully erosion.He further explained that five metres wide reinforced concrete culvert of more than 366 metres long resolved the problem.The Aba mountain of refuse which is about five metres high was part of the challenges while a section of the track was buried.One more photo below.                                                                                                                                

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