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Colonel Herve Fernando, officer commanding the French Desert Helicopter Battle Group for Operation Barkhane.<br />
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In 2012, Islamist radicals linked to al-Qaeda, hijacked an uprising by ethnic Tuareg people and went on to seize cities across northern Mali, holding on for nearly a year until they were forced out by a French military intervention.