Two different Islamist jihadi groups have said they were behind massacre at a hotel in Mali.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta said 19 people were killed and a further seven injured after militants seized 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu in Bamako.
Two Islamist militants were also killed.
Islamist militant group al Mourabitoun has reportedly claimed joint responsibility for the attack on a hotel in the Malian capital.
According to neighbouring nation Mauritania's Alakhbar news agency al Mourabitoun have said they were behind teh attack along with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
A hotel in Mali's capital was targeted by gunmen in an attack which killed 27 and saw 170 people held hostage for several hours.
Bamako is two and half thousand miles from Paris; but in another capital, the same nightmare has unfolded.