United Nation forces patrol the streets of Timbuktu, Mali, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. Mali’s military regime is struggling to fight growing violence in the West African nation's hard-hit northern region. That's after a peace deal signed several years ago with rebels appeared to have collapsed and as the United Nations peacekeepers who helped fight jihadi groups begin to leave. Attacks in northern Mali have more than doubled since U.N. peacekeepers completed the first phase of their withdrawal in Aug. 2023, after a decade of fighting Islamic extremists, resulting in more than 150 deaths. (AP Photo/Moulaye Sayah, File)
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