(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) BAMAKO Mali Dhu-AlQa'dah 15 1436 August 30 2015 SPA -- A government-allied militia in Mali says it will leave a northern town it occupied earlier this month following clashes with Tuareg separatists AP reported.
Fihroun Maiga spokesman for the Platform militia coalition said Sunday that militiamen would comply with a request from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to leave the town of Anefis. On Friday Maiga had insisted they would stay in the town to prevent the separatists from returning flouting the demands of an international peace monitoring group.
Fighting broke out on Aug. 15 between militia members and the main Tuareg separatist group. Clashes on Aug. 17 pushed the separatists from Anefis located about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) northeast of Bamako Mali's capital.
Mali's United Nations peacekeeping mission on Saturday issued a statement praising the president's intervention in the dispute.
--SPA
15:08 LOCAL TIME 12:08 GMT
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