Mutual Mistrust Reignites Fight in Kidal, Mali

All afternoon and into the evening, Kidal residents hunkered down in their homes, waiting for the clashes raging at their doorsteps to subside. “They were fighting inside town, next to my house. I could hear the cartridges bouncing off the street. The fighting lasted for hours,” Mohamed Ag Balssaty, a former official reached by phone in the Malian city, said of Thursday's fighting. The conflict in Mali was supposed to be over. Last year, the northern separatist rebels and the...

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