The following day, the 92nd took Bourem, 80 kilometers from Gao and a suspected hotbed of al Qaeda and other jihadists riddling northern Mali.
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Recent surveys in the Bourem area of Gao region found that the price of basic foodstuffs had increased by up to 70% as a result of the military operation, Oxfam said.
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