Major French airstrikes were carried out in the night from Saturday to Sunday in northern Mali, in areas near the border with Algeria, told AFP Staff few hours after the visit of French President François Hollande in Timbuktu and Bamako.
These bombings north of Kidal Region and Tessalit town 70 km from Algeria, aimed deposits logistics and training centers of armed Islamist groups, said the spokesman of the Staff French armies, Colonel Thierry Burkhard.
Thirty units were involved: fighter-bombers, tankers, reconnaissance, it was pointed out the same source.
After taking successive Gao and Timbuktu, the French soldiers had taken over five days ago Airport Kidal town held by Tuareg rebels and Islamist dissidents claiming moderate.
Saturday during a one-day visit to Mali, President François Hollande promised after the recent success in the anti-Islamist, France remain the Mali side of the time it takes.
It is to go north end this operation with African armies engaged, said the French president.
Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hubert Tieman Coulibaly, hoped that the French military operation continues in Mali Serval all the air dimension is very important in the face of seasoned fighters that must destroy the arsenal, in a interview with Journal du Dimanche.
And Kidal region including the massive Ifoghas near the Algerian border, is the birthplace of the Tuareg and independence, according to Paris, the probable whereabouts of seven French hostages.
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