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France Comes To Former Colony's Aid To Oust Radical Islamists In Mali

By Eleanor Beardsley

January 11, 2013

French President Francois Hollande announced on Friday that France has intervened militarily in the Saharan African nation of Mali, a former French colony, to stop any further advancement of Islamist extremist forces in the north of the country.

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