Malian people waving to French soldiers as a convoy of armoured vehicles leave Bamako and start a deployment to the north of Mali as part of the "Serval" operations on January 15, 2013. PHOTO | AFP
An Islamic State-linked group killed around 40 civilians this week in a northern region of Mali that has been plagued by clashes between rival jihadist groups, local sources told AFP on Friday.
"There are at least 40 civilian deaths in three different sites" in the Tessit area near the borders of Burkina Faso and Niger, a civilian official in the area told AFP.
