French president to visit Mali
French president Francois Hollande will fly to Mali tonight, according to France's Liberation newspaper.
He will meet with the country's interim president in Bamako on Saturday, Reuters reports.
Hollande is due to visit the desert city of Timbuktu, which French and Malian forces seized back from Islamist rebels.
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