On Saturday, Two French soldiers killed by an IED near Tessalit , in northern Mali, according to the French presidency.
it added that the explosion happened after an armored vehicle was stricken by an improvised explosive device.
The West African country has long been plagued by chronic instability, a simmering jihadist revolt, ethnic violence and endemic corruption, prompting a clique of rebel colonels to detain elderly President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last month.
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