Ivory Coast Republican Forces (FRCI) soldiers of the logistics battalion, part of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali, gather at the Ivory Coast's army headquarters in Abidjan before leaving for Bamako, Mali, on May 2, 2013.

Tuareg rebels stand near a truck in Mali on March 19, 2012. After the libyan unrest the civil war in Mali between Tuareg rebels and government forces has escalated. The UN say that about 130.000 displaced person are facing a human catastrophy due to the food shortage in Sahel.

Mali's acting President Diocounda Traore attends an ECOWAS Summit to help plot a military strategy to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist groups, on Nov. 11, 2012 in Abuja.

A bus carrying passengers from Gao in Mali's Islamist-controlled north to the capital, Bamako, makes a stop in Mopti, Mali Sept. 27, 2012. Ordinary Malians and international experts alike are not sure what will reunite and bring back political stability to a country that until recently had a reputation as one of West Africa's most steady democracies.

A man hold a flag of Mali as he attends a prayer ceremony organized by religious leaders for peace in Mali on March 31, 2012 in Bamako, Mali.

People hold banners and sit on a truck during a protest called by the Coordination of Patriotic Organizations in Mali against a foreign military intervention in Mali to reclaim the Islamist-controlled north, Sept. 28, 2012.

Boys cross the street in the recently liberated town of Douentza, Mali, Jan. 29, 2013.

French troops gather in a hangar at Bamako's airport in Mali, Jan. 15, 2013.

The Islamist police patrol in the streets of Gao, northern Mali, July 16, 2012.

Refugees from northern Mali, fleeing Islamist extremists violence, have just arrived in the neighboring Niger on Oct. 23, 2012

A police officer pulls aside a protestor demonstrating in front of a police line, during a protest march in favor of an international military intervention to regain control of the Mali's Islamist-controlled north, in Bamako, Mali, on Dec. 8, 2012.

Malian junta soldiers patrol a road in Kati, outside Mali's capital Bamako, April 1, 2012

Mali junta leader Captain Amadou Sanogo speaks at the Kati Military camp, in a suburb of Bamako, March 22, 2012.

A main street is mostly deserted in Bamako, Mali on March 24, 2012, after the Malian army staged a coup d'etat in the country's capital.

Powell talks to Mali's Foreign Minister Modibo Sidibe at the airport in Bamako

A French soldier drives an armoured vehicle in the desert near Bourem, northern Mali, Feb. 17, 2013

French soldiers in a British made armored car lead a French supply convoy near Hambori, northern Mali, on the road to Gao, Feb. 4, 2013.

A convoy of Malian troops makes a stop to test some of their weapons near Hambori, northern Mali, on the road to Gao, Feb. 4, 2013.

Fighters of the Islamic group Ansar Dine stand guard at the Kidal Airport in northern Mali on Aug. 7, 2012.

A museum guard picks up boxes holding ancient manuscripts, which were partially damaged by Islamist rebels, at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, Mali on Jan. 31, 2013.

A Malian police officer stands on the roadside as a convoy of French army soldiers leave Bamako and start a deployment to the north of Mali as part of the 'Serval' operations on Jan. 15, 2013.

Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard during the handover of a Swiss female hostage for transport by helicopter to neighboring Burkina Faso, at a designated rendezvous point in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Two main groups now appear to be competing to govern northern Mali: Ansar Dine, which wants to see Sharia law brought to Mali, and separatist rebels who already have declared an independent state.

A woman prepares a meal on February 4, 2012 at a Malian refugees camp in Chinegodar, western Niger, close to the Malian border. Like Mauritania, many people in Mali are in need of food aid.

A TV screenshot taken on March 22, 2012, shows soldiers announcing a curfew in Mali's capital, Bamako, following a military coup

Algerian Islamists clash with security forces during a protest against the decision taken by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to allow French fighter jets to fly in Algerian airspace, in the capital Algiers on January 18. Islamist hostage-takers at a remote Algerian gas field on Friday demanded a prisoner swap and an end to the French military campaign in Mali, a report said.

A man does an arms drill in the bush in the Youth Camp of Soufouroulaye, near Mopti. The militia Ganda Izo (Sons of Land) boasts 1300 men. They are being trained to handle weapons and to fight in order to reconquer cities in North Mali.