What next for Mali's junta after shock of rebel offensive?

Tuareg separatist fighters have taken over the city of Kidal after Russian and Malian troops withdrew. It is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in coordinated assaults, managed to enter Mali's capital, Bamako, assassinate the defence minister, and recapture territory in the north.

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