Gunfire rocked several districts of the junta-ruled west African country of Mali on Saturday, including Kati, the home of military ruler General Assimi Goita, witnesses and a security source told AFP.
Fighting was also heard in the northern cities of Gao and Kidal and Sevare in the centre of the landlocked nation that has been battling more than a decade of jihadist conflict.
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