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Bombardment of Gao
2013 French campaign in West Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On January 13, 2013, as one of the first actions of French intervention in Mali, French planes bombed the city of Gao, which was controlled by the jihadist Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA).