'Damage Control Mode': Reputations of Mali Junta & Russian Mercenaries 'Hang in Balance'

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They had to help Malian soldiers against jihadists and independenceists, but they fled leaving several cities under the control of the insurgents.

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For Algerian researcher and journalist Akram Kharief, the series of attacks in Mali, which began on 25 April, marked a higher level, the assailants having succeeded in dislodging the Russian forces of the Africa Corps and Malian soldiers from several Malian cities.