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.
Up to 650 soldiers will be sent from Germany to Mali to join the UN peacekeeping mission there, the country's Defence Minister has announced.
Ursula von der Leyen said the move was aimed at helping French forces already in position in the African nation.
It comes after 19 people were killed and a further seven injured when militants seized 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu in Bamako earlier this month.
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.