VoA - News Sunday 13th January, 2013
Troops from Mali's neighbors are expected to start arriving Sunday to help France in the third day of a battle to push back Islamic extremists in Mali's north.
Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal pledged on Saturday to send troops, one day after France started airstrikes against the militants.
Officials said Saturday French forces pushed rebels from Konna with airstrikes and ground forces. The recent militant takeover of the town northeast of the capital, Bamako, had put militants in a position to seize the nearby city of Mopti - the northern-most municipality under government control.
A reporter in Mali tells VOA French to Africa service that dozens of Islamist fighters were killed in the Konna operation. The reporter also said the Malian army held the town late Saturday with retreating Islamists fighters holed up in the towns of Bore' and Douentza.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian
Source: http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/211918000/scat/c1ab2109a5bf37ec
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