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African military leaders discuss crisis in the northern town of Kidal, Mali

Leaders called the armies of States members of the Group West Africa Saturday to settle the question of Kidal, northern Mali, which reject the MNLA, Mali’s army, questioning whether the rebel movement must be considered anymore an “enemy”.

And Army Chief of staff General Soumaila Bakayoko of Ivory Coast after a meeting with his counterparts in the economic community of West African States, the question of Kidal topped the agenda of the meeting, noting that the meeting had made on the issue of recommendations will be delivered to the Kidal region’s leaders express hope in a political settlement of this issue.

Bakayoko said that initial outline process international mission for financial support (the African force) was not considered the MNLA as an enemy, saying that the situation in Kidal requires clarification and decision to determine the final positions of all of the elections in the best of circumstances, referring to the ballot is supposed to organize in all territory of Mali in July Bamako said.

Kidal is dominated by Tuareg rebel movement, which seeks autonomy, with the MNLA splinter of Ansar Islamic religion. The two groups rejected the presence of the army and the State finance in the city.

Saturday’s meeting focused on the process of integration of the African force, comprising 6,300 men of West Africa and Chad, the United Nations Mission established at the end of April by the international organization to bring stability to northern Mali and known simply as “minosma”.

In another development, the United Nations Mission in Mali that the Commander of the international peacekeeping force in Mali General Yahya Sene Garba was found dead in his room at his hotel in the capital, Bamako.

Maybe a statement issued late Saturday that General Garba had died of a heart attack.

Beminosma communications adviser, said Damien Cardon body, General Garba, a neighbouring Niger to Mali, found Saturday morning.