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Sahel: Burkina Faso holds talks on security crisisF

Burkina Faso on Thursday launched a two-day huddle gathering governing and opposition parties to discuss the country's worsening jihadist insurgency. The initiative, launched by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, coincides with a surge of attacks in the...
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Sahel: France to announce withdrawal of troops from Sahel as region slides into uncontrollable violenceF

By Daphné Benoit French President Emmanuel Macron is set to announce Thursday a partial withdrawal of French troops deployed in the Sahel region of Africa for almost a decade to battle jihadist insurgents, three sources with knowledge of the plan told AFP. The issue...
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Benin: Growing risk of Jihad contagion from the Sahel in West Africa’s BeninF

Jihadists operating near Benin's borders with Burkina Faso and Niger may coopt intensifying communal conflicts in the country's north as they seek to extend their influence, a Dutch security report said on Thursday.  AFP reports that several jihadist groups operate in...
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Sahel: Death toll in latest terror attack on Solhan in Burkina Faso updated to 160F

Details of the massacre Suspected jihadists killed 160 people -- including 20 children -- in the village of Solhan in Burkina Faso's conflict-wracked north on the weekend, in the deadliest attack since Islamist violence reached the West African country in 2015. Here...
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