Dakar — Some 6,500 Malians forced to flee to a remote area near the border with Algeria following the French-led military intervention against Islamist fighters are surviving under trees and in wrecked vehicles without sufficient food, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.
They fled to Tin Zaouatène area in Mali's north-eastern Kidal region. Most of them are from Kidal, Gao and Ménaka in the north of the country.
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