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Ouagadougou, Jan 28, 2020 (By Armel Baily) - Six soldiers were killed and several went missing Tuesday after a suspected jihadist attack in troubled Burkina Faso, following a weekend massacre which could have claimed up to 50 lives, security and local sources told...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Jan 29, 2020 - African states, including the continent's biggest economy Nigeria, on Wednesday said they had begun to introduce measures aimed at stopping the spread of the new coronavirus. No verified infection has been reported to date in...

Dakar, Jan 28, 2020 - Hundreds of children in the Sahel were killed, maimed or forcibly separated from their parents last year, the United Nations said Tuesday, as a jihadist conflict rages across the region. In Mali alone, 277 children were killed or maimed during...

Bamako, Jan 28, 2020 - A court in Mali's capital Bamako ordered the temporary release of former coup leader Amadou Sanogo from detention Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, amid a deadly conflict with jihadists in the country. A former army captain, Sanogo and several...