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Sahel: Fake news flooding troubled regionF

By Amaury Hauchard, with Boureima Hama in Niamey Fake news is flooding Africa's conflict-ridden Sahel, according to experts, sowing discord and confusion in the increasingly volatile region. Doctored news bulletins and altered photos often spread like wildfire on...
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Sahel: Belgium is no longer sending troops to MaliF

Belgium has for now ruled out deploying a contingent of some 250 troops to Mali, the Belgian defence minister's office told AFP on Tuesday, as European forces withdraw from the region. Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder told a committee in the Belgian Parliament that...
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Sahel: Denmark withdraws aid to Mali and Burkina FasoF

Denmark will partially suspend its development aid to Mali and Burkina Faso, its foreign ministry said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the military juntas running the impoverished West African countries. The decision came after Mali forced Danish troops...
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Sahel: How to destroy a nation: ordinary Malians speak of their horrific lifeF

By Amaury Hauchard Some are men of arms, who have taken up a gun out of need or for a cause. Others are just ordinary civilians, struggling to survive from one day to the next and make sense of the mayhem. These are the people of central Mali, which in 2015 spiralled...
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