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(FILES) Mali’s Interior Minister Colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly poses in Bamako on April 26, 2012. Malian authorities on January 11, 2013 declared a state of emergency throughout the country as the army launched a counter-offensive against Islamists who were pushing south. The measure “takes effect immediately and over the entire national territory,” government minister Moussa Sinko Coulibaly told journalists. AFP PHOTO / HABIBOU KOUYATE