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BAMAKO: Forty-nine civilians and 15 soldiers were killed in Mali on Thursday when assailants opened fire on a boat on a waterway and raided a camp in Gao region, a hotbed of militancy over the past decade. Mali’s interim government said insurgents from a West African branch of Al Qaeda, called Jamaat Nusrat Al Islam Wal Muslimeen (JNIM), were responsible …

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