Two different Islamist jihadi groups have said they were behind massacre at a hotel in Mali.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta said 19 people were killed and a further seven injured after militants seized 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu in Bamako.
Two Islamist militants were also killed.
Gunmen have stormed a Radisson hotel in Mali's capital Bamako and are believed to be holding "numerous" hostages, security forces said.
A senior security source told Reuters: "Very early in the morning there was gunfire.
"Apparently it's an attempt to take hostages. The police are there and are sealing off the area."
A hotel in Mali's capital was targeted by gunmen in an attack which killed 27 and saw 170 people held hostage for several hours.
Bamako is two and half thousand miles from Paris; but in another capital, the same nightmare has unfolded.