Bamako, Safar 17, 1438, Nov 17, 2016, SPA -- United Nations peacekeepers found 2000 kilograms of explosives near the town of Kidal in Mali's north, a spokesman said Thursday. "The amount could have been used to make up to 100 improvised explosive devices," Olivier Salgado, a spokesman for the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma), told dpa. The explosives had been hidden in the desert west of Kidal, according to Salgado. --SPA 19:40 LOCAL TIME 16:40 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w271718