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Chad's parliament on Tuesday extended by three months a state of emergency in three eastern regions hit by rebel violence and deadly inter-communal clashes. In August, President Idriss Deby had declared a state of emergency for three months in the Sila and Ouaddai...

Deadly floods across Niger have left 57 people dead and affected more than 130,000 since they began in June, according to the latest government toll. Extreme weather is common in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, but the capital and even desert areas in the...

Bamako, Sept 11, 2019 (By Maīmouna Moro) - Like many of his fellow Malians, Ousmane  Maiga used to drive regularly between Gao, in the north of the country, and the capital Bamako. Today, he balks at doing the once-familiar trip. For one thing, there is the threat...

A Malian soldier was killed and seven others injured in an ambush by gunmen on Wednesday in the northern Timbuktu region of the country, military and local sources said. The attack was carried out in the morning by armed men on a pickup truck about 20 kilometres (12...