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Now playing Next Mali Mali: rocket attack on Kidal UN base kills 3, injures 20 The United Nations says at least two of its personnel and one civilian have died in a gun and rocket attack on a camp for UN peacekeepers in northern 28/11/2015
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Now playing Next Mali Mali: security tightened as situation of emergency declared Security has been tightened in Bamako, a day after heavily-armed militants took 170 people hostage at one of the city’s luxury hotels. A state of 21/11/2015
Now playing Next Mali Mali: a state of emergency and national mourning Mali has been placed under a ten-day state of emergency after hundreds were taken hostage at a luxury hotel in its capital city. At least 20 people 21/11/2015
Now playing Next Mali Mali hotel siege: witnesses recount how the drama unfolded As Malian special forces searched the upper floors of the hotel to capture a pocket of remaining militants, some of the freed hostages and 20/11/2015
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