France announced it will begin pulling its nearly 4,000 troops out of Mali in March, handing over operations gradually to the UN-backed AFISMA force of some 8,000 troops."Several hundred" Islamist militants are said to have been killed so far. French forces in the north are waiting for the AFISMA troops to arrive.
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