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Mozambique: Setback for Mozambique as insurgents take control of Palma near Tanzania and oil sites

Islamist militants have seized control of the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near a huge gas project involving French oil major Total and other international energy companies, security sources said on Saturday. In their closest attack to the gas project in the...

Senegal braces for Jihadist spillover from the Sahel

Senegal's President Macky Sall said Tuesday that his native country and neighbouring West African states must "prepare to do battle" to stop jihadist expansion beyond the Sahel. In an interview broadcast that day by French radio RFI, the president also urged a more...

US-Africa: Trump’s disastrous reputation in Africa

As they watched a violent mob smash into the US Capitol, some in Africa could not help but see a little irony in the chaos incited by President Donald Trump, who once famously called African nations "shitholes". Others across the continent offered Washington some tips...

Nigeria: Relief in Katsina after release of hundreds of kidnapped boys

Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram experienced their first full day of freedom on Friday after a nearly week-long ordeal. But relief at their survival mingled with concern that many others...

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