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simmering and then the presence of international extremist groups the al qaida in the maghreb al qaeda 8 solve islamic state as nomic states in west africa elements of the koran all these are warring things for 'd the government of mali and it's been stated by some security sources that in fact the attackers who killed 71 measuring soldiers in the last 3 or 4 days way in fact people who crossed over from the border in mali to launch that particular attack so it's what the the organizers of this companies are hopeful that the summit will just cause those issues dividing money and at so that they can put up a united front and as others have been to achieve anything concrete out of this i know that you know here at al-jazeera and with you and the family been reporting on these multiple attacks in the region over the last few months and it really does feel like the situation there is the cherry thing. well it's difficult to say right now as we speak now some of the armed groups that been course in trouble in mali are actually not represented at the opening ceremony but the organizers hope that the message