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Mali's army, backed by Russia's Africa Corps, took back the northern city of Kidal on 6 October without a fight after the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) pulled out.
School closures caused by insecurity in Mali keep rising: 2,444 of the country's 11,860 schools could not reopen when the school year began on 1 October.
