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.
President Keita has said that 21 people, including two Islamist militants, were killed in the attack on a Bamako hotel. He confirmed seven others were wounded during the address on state television.
Keita has declared a national state of emergency from midnight and three days of national mourning.
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.