Mali secures recaptured towns, donors pledge funds

By Richard Valdmanis and Adama Diarra

DOUENTZA/GAO, Mali |
Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:11pm EST

DOUENTZA/GAO, Mali (Reuters) – French-backed Malian infantry searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday uncovering arms and explosives deserted by Islamist fighters, and France pronounced it would demeanour to palm over longer-term confidence operations in Mali to an African force.

An 18-day descent in France’s former West African cluster has pushed a militants out of vital towns and into dried and towering hideouts to defuse a risk of Mali being used as a

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