Mali - Fighting Causes Mass Flight - NYTimes.com Clashes between the army and Tuareg rebels in northern Mali have forced 126,400 people to flee their homes since mid-January, the United Nations said Friday. The United Nations office for humanitarian affairs said people were continuing to flee and estimated that 61,400 had been displaced internally, while 65,000 had sought refuge in Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Algeria.