BAMAKO (Reuters) - Tuareg separatists have pushed back an attempt by Mali's army to seize control of their stronghold town of Kidal, a diplomat and a spokesman for the Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) said on Wednesday.
"All of Kidal including the Malian Military Camp 1 is in our control," Attaye Ag Mohamed, an MNLA official in Kidal, told Reuters by telephone, adding that several Malian army soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured.
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