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Mali reports that 2-year-old girl who traveled from Guinea to Mali while showing symptoms of Ebola has died; dozens of contacts are being traced, but it is unlikely that everybody who encountered the child on public transportation will be identified.|

Officials in Mali announce emergence of second Ebola case; new threat comes as nation approaches end of 21-day quarantines for 108 people linked to first, fatal case.|

France says a French soldier and about 20 Islamist militants were killed during a fierce clash in northern Mali near the Algerian border.|

Separatists in northern Mali release about 30 civil servants that had been held after attack on regional governor's office in Kidal.|

An outbreak of Ebola in Mali must be contained before it can get very far, and international agencies and donors can’t let their guards down.|

Mali reports that 2-year-old girl who traveled from Guinea to Mali while showing symptoms of Ebola has died; dozens of contacts are being traced, but it is unlikely that everybody who encountered the child on public transportation will be identified.|

Tuareg separatist groups in Mali accept cease-fire agreement with government after clashes that threatened to plunged the country back into war.|

Mali reports that 2-year-old girl who traveled from Guinea to Mali while showing symptoms of Ebola has died; dozens of contacts are being traced, but it is unlikely that everybody who encountered the child on public transportation will be identified.|

Toddler from Mali tests positive for Ebola virus and is put in isolation; Mali is the sixth West African country to confirm Ebola case, indicating again the disease's barely controlled spread across porous regional borders.|

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