Photos: France sends troops to Mali
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French general Gregoire De Saint-Quentin (L), commanding French troops in Senegal, arrives with Ivory Coast chief of staff general Soumaila Bakayoko (C) at an ECOWAS chiefs of staff meeting on January 15, 2013 in Bamako. West African army chiefs met in Bamako on Tuesday on plans to send African troops to join an offensive against Islamists occupying northern Mali, as France pressed on with air strikes against the insurgents. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
