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Mr Hollande was presented with the animal during a visit to the remote African town of Timbuktu in war-torn Mali.



The gesture was to thank him for sending French troops to defeat militant Islamic rebels in February.



The President at first planned to bring the camel back to France and keep it in a zoo but left it in Mali because of the problems of transporting it.



