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.
China's President Xi Jinping as condemned an attack at a Mali hotel where Islamist militants killed 19 people, including three Chinese executives.
Four other Chinese nationals were rescued after Malian authorities stormed the hotel.
Mr Xi vowed that China would strengthen its international anti-terrorism cooperation, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.
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.