Mali militias withdraw from key town but expand northwards - U.N.


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Sep 2015

DAKAR (Reuters) - Mali's pro-government militias have withdrawn from the flashpoint town of Anefis but are pushing northwards to another settlement, the United Nations mission (MINUSMA) said on Tuesday.

Mediators are struggling to make armed groups in Mali's desert north abide by the terms of a U.N.-backed June peace deal which seeks to turn the page on decades of Tuareg rebellions since independence from France in 1960.

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