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Mali holds tribute for assassinated defence minister

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Mali holds tribute for assassinated defence minister
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Mali held a tribute under tight security for assassinated defence minister Sadio Camara on Thursday, following large-scale attacks at the weekend by jihadists and their Tuareg separatist allies that have destabilised the country’s junta.



Thousands of people, including junta leader Assimi Goita, attended the ceremony at the military engineering battalion grounds in the centre of the capital, Bamako.



Numerous armed soldiers were present, AFP journalists observed, with checkpoints and b

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