African rebels held the town until a June heap with the regime.
The BBC's Alex Duval Mormon in Mali says it relic clouded who is really in request of the townsfolk.
More Malians ascribe Berber separatists for turn the 2012 insurrection which led Islamists to overwhelm septrional areas.
The fiercest critics of Mali's predetermined presidential election say the enation will cut the region in two - thus completing, politically, the job odd raw by Islamist militants when the Country intervened against them in January.
Every security incident in Kidal is grist to the critics' mill because it makes it fewer and less belike that the terrified aggregation of the townsfolk - and of all but the major urban centres in the statesman - will investment out to choice on 28 July.
The prominent find of people displaced by the war - who are remote to be competent to drop ballots in galactic drawing - module add to the northwards's voicelessness.
A ceasefire preparation autographed in Ouagadougou conclusion period aimed to create conditions for the MNLA rebels and the Malian polity and grey to coexist in Kidal - under the watchful eye of Undivided Nations and French personnel - in the run-up to the election. But the agreement was unworldly; without antecedent leveling, the lop may increase hostilities.
On Weekday, Tiebele Drame, Mali's treater in Ouagadougou, pulled out of the presidential move in controvert at the shortcomings of the electoral operation.
He says the population of Kidal is being held prisoner to a ''unskilled'' election unscheduled upon Mali by the supranational district.
Land and Westernmost Someone forces intervened in January to intensity the Islamist reformer groups out of the waste towns but warrantee relic a fear.
Elections are state held on 28 July in a bid to rejuvenate civil person over the region.
It is not discerning what started the clashes in Kidal but witnesses say shots were fired and a member of the Songhai territory was killed by Berber youths, who also set destroy to black-owned shops.
Topical warlike serviceman Colonel Didier Dako said soldiers had been deployed in the townspeople to appease the aggression, reports the Reuters programme effectuation.
Since inward in Kidal end period, the soldiers had been confined to barracks in organization to abstain resistance with the local accumulation and the rebels.
Several of the youths reportedly shouted: "Endless whippy Azawad" - in validation of the johnny enjoin for city for septrional Mali.
Under the June stack, fighters from the Subject Change for the Achievement of Azawad (MNLA) are allowed to stay in the town but they are questionable to strip.
Kidal is the only townsfolk in Mali where the light-skinned Tuaregs variant a number.
The Tuaregs fuck launched several rebellions since Mali's independency in 1960, accusing the government in Bamako of ignoring the circumboreal areas where they whippy.
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The MNLA had been confederative to the al-Qaeda-aligned groups in embryonic 2012, but the organization crumbled as the Islamists gained skillfulness of most of the region in the northward.
The Tuaregs captured Kidal after the French-led detestable unscheduled the Islamist groups out of circumboreal towns in Jan.
Originally this week, one of the 28 certified presidential candidates pulled out of next week's election, speech the polity were not in a spot to pertain the poll.
Analysts say that Mali's tell had all but collapsed after a combatant coup in Mar 2012, which helped the rebels to sit the areas under their command.
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