A former rebel leader in northern Mali was killed in the capital Bamako on Tuesday, according to the spokesman for a militia alliance in the region. "We have just lost our president Sidi Brahim Ould Sidatt (aka Sidati) killed this morning in Bamako," the spokesman of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a mostly Tuareg alliance, said on social media, in a report confirmed by a doctor and a close associate. sd-ah-lal/gd/txw