In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, Malian troops join with former rebels during a joint patrol in Gao, Mali. Malian soldiers and former Tuareg rebels have staged their first joint patrol in northern Mali, a key step in a 2015 peace agreement meant to help calm a region under threat from multiple extremist and other armed groups. As helicopters with the U.N. peacekeeping mission hovered overhead last week, 50 men in distinctive blue turbans started to patrol the city of Gao, a target of attacks by Islamic extremists including one in January that killed 54. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)
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