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Sahel: Germany suspends reconnaissance patrols in Mali due to inability to get flyover rightF

Germany has again suspended its reconnaissance patrols in eastern Mali that are part of a UN peacekeeping mission after failing to get flyover rights, the military said Monday.  The permission is needed for flights between Gao, home to the German military's main base...
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Sahel: Row between Mali and Ivory Coast intensifiesF

Mali's ruling junta has heightened its diplomatic and verbal joust with Ivory Coast over 46 detained Ivorian soldiers, warning other West African states to stay out of the spat. In a statement read on state television on Thursday evening, interim Prime Minister...
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Sahel: Senior Mali army officer admits defeat, calls for evacuation of part of the northF

A well-known Malian commander has urged civilians to flee part of a northern region recently attacked by Islamic State jihadists, in a rare admission of the security problems facing locals. "There are no armed forces or any entity to guarantee the security of the...
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Mali: In the absence of institutional security in Kidal, the Tuaregs are in chargeF

On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked pickup trucks as dusk falls and the sky slowly fills with stars. The men are not army troops but fighters from the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) -- a...
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