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At least Nine soldiers have been killed in an attack at an army base near the central town of Bandiagara on Thursday night in Mali.

According to a military official, nine soldiers were also wounded, five of them seriously.

Mali has been plagued by a brutal conflict that began as a separatist movement in the north but devolved into a multitude of armed groups jockeying for control in the country’s central and northern regions.