The current chair of the African Union, Benin President Boni Yayi, said Friday West African nations would soon meet on strategies to intervene in Mali, where Islamist extremists have seized the north.
West African bloc - the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which includes 15 countries, has made 3,300 standby troops available to Mali to help it win back the north.
Mali has however said it does not want African troops to be deployed into combat against the extremists,
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