Gao, Mali (Reuters)-clashes between soldiers and militants erupted Sunday in Mali in the streets in Gao, the biggest town in northern Mali who attacks rocked by suicide bombings in the last two days.
The two sides engaged in a shootout in the afternoon in the center of the city near the police station, said an AFP correspondent.
France-led forces recaptured Gao on 26 January from Al Qaida linked militants who ruled the region of northern Mali for 10 months after a military coup.
Clashes in the path it takes place after Saturday's suicide bomb attacks late at night at a military checkpoint at the entrance of the city, after a similar attack in the same location the day before.
The two suicide bombings were the first such attacks were in Mali.
Oneness and Jihad movement in West Africa (MUJAO), one of the groups that dominate northern Mali before being driven off by the intervention of France that was launched on 11 January, claimed responsibility for the first attack and on Saturday threatened to launch further attacks.
"We are determined to launch further attacks against the forces of France and its allies. We asked local residents away from the military zone and avoid an explosion, "said spokesman MUJAO Abou Walid Sahraoui.
Attack-suicide bomb attacks that killed only the two perpetrators.
One soldier lightly injured in the bombing Friday. No longer are injured in Saturday's attack, said a soldier at the checkpoint.
France, which is working with the military of Mali, on January 11, launched operation when militants threaten advanced to the capital of Mali, Bamako, after months of doubt about the African intervention forces to help drive out hard-line groups from the northern region.
Mali, who had become one of stable democracies in Africa, experienced the uncertainty after the coup d ' état in March 2012 overthrow the Government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.
The international community is worried that country will become the new hotbed of terrorists and they support the efforts of Africa to intervene militarily.
The United Nations has approved the placement of the African intervention force consisting of about 3300 soldiers under the auspices of the ECOWAS grouping of West African States. With the involvement of Chad, which has pledged 2,000 soldiers, means the number of intervention forces that would be much greater.
Hard-line groups, which said the experts acting under the umbrella of Al Qaida in Islamic Morocco (AQIM), dominate the North, Mali to the extent greater than that of France, since April last year.
Tribal rebels in mid-January 2012 launched more war decades for the independence of the Tuareg in the northern region they claim as their land, reinforced by heavily armed guerrillas who recently returned from Libya. However, their struggle was then hijacked by hard-line muslim groups.
Disgruntled army coup in March meant to give the military more authority in order to quell a revolt in the North, but it in fact backfire and the rebels took control of three major cities in the North of Mali within three days. (M014)
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