Country Mali Capital Gao Area 31,250 km² | Region Gao Region Time zone GMT (UTC+0) Local time Friday 10:38 AM | |
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Weather 33°C, Wind E at 32 km/h, 8% Humidity | ||
Gao Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Gao Region of north-eastern Mali. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is the town of Gao.
Map of Gao, Mali
During the Northern Mali conflict in 2012, the main Tuareg rebel group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) lost the region to the Islamist groups Ansar Dine, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In 2013, the Islamists then lost most of the region to French and Malian soldiers.
The cercle is divided into seven communes:
References
Gao Cercle Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA