Tuaregs 'join Gaddafi's mercenaries': "Members of the Tuareg community in Mali say a large number of men from the Tuareg ethnic group have left Mali in the last week to join pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya.
'About 2-300 have left in the last seven days,' said a senior elected official, who did not want to be named, from the Kidal region in the north of the country, where many Tuareg live.
Another Tuareg man from Kidal said: 'It's true many young men are leaving. It all started about a week back.'
He said he had spoken to a convoy of 40 vehicles who are in southern Algeria waiting to cross the border into Libya.
The elected official said: 'They are being paid about $10,000 (£6,000) to join up and then I've heard they are being told that they will get $1,000 a day to fight.'
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These people are travelling through the desert. Nobody controls the borders in the Sahara”
The official claimed that some of the money was coming through the Libyan embassy in the Malian capital, Bamako."
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