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...

THE SON INLAW OF A FAMOUS BURUNDI ACTIVIST,WAS SHOT DEAD BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN TODAY.

                     Today a Burundi police confirms that attackers armed with guns and grenades killed the son inlaw of a prominent Burundian human rights activist and campaigner against President Pierre Nkurunziza's divisive bid for a third term in office.Pascal Nshirimana,the son inlaw of Pierre Clave Mbonimpa,was ambushed by a group of people on motorbikes at around noon at the gate of his home in the capital,Bujumbura.Mbonimpa,who heads the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons {APRODH},was himself shot and wounded in August by gunmen on motorbikes,and is receiving treatment in Belgium.

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