French and Malian troops enter Diabaly

French and Malian troops have entered the key central Malian towns of Diabaly and Doutenza, both of which have been in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked rebels for weeks. A convoy of about 30 armoured vehicles carrying some 200 French and Malian soldiers moved into the town on Monday at about 0900 GMT, without meeting resistance. Diabaly, 350km north of the capital Bamako, had harboured the main cluster of rebels south of the frontline towns of Mopti and Sevare until French air attacks forced them to flee or attempt to blend in with locals, residents said. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from Bamako.

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[distance5000]

The concept of "Germanic People" is defined on a linguistic basis, not on blue eyes or blond hair. Those physical appearances are not unique to Germanic People. Germans are "Germanic," but they have lower percentage of blond hair than most of the Slavic peoples. Even the Finnish and Estonians, who speak languages originally from Central Asia, have higher percentage of blond hair than the Germans.

[nice2be42]

what a loud of shit do some research before you make stupid comments Mali is one of the poorest countries in Africa there is no uranium for the French to guard you clown

[Alexandru Prian]

Or maybe the french just want all of the al-quaeda fighters to join their brethren in Syria.

[doppelgangerman]

yay france is liberating everything, with their rainbows and sunshine hollande has declared a war against all evil for the worlds own good with no thougth of himself nor money.

[Nikolas Dereck]

Haha the al qaeda bitches were too pussy to fight real men, and blended in the community, what a bunch of cowards, can't even stand and fight, have to make coward bomb attacks, no respect for these pussies!

[blooduhz]

Mali is one of the richest country with Gold and Uranium. The French immediately guarded the uranium grounds once they captured the area. so yea go figure why Hollande gives a damn badly about "Mali people." History repeats itself, we aren't fool, western medias.

[SAMAND33]

Actually that video is some thing you can see but no body sees what you are saying.