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United Nations, Oct 24, The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, under danger from rebels, has completed withdrawal from half of its bases in the country, a spokesman said. UN officials are keeping a wary eye on the progress made by a convoy withdrawing from Aguelhok in the northern Kidal region to neighboring Gao region - a journey of 550 km - in a deteriorating security situation, Xinhua news agency quoted Stephane Dujarric, the chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as saying on Monday. The closing of the Tessalit camp on October 21 was the first camp closure in the…