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Sahel: Former president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Toure dies in BamakoF

Mali's former president, Amadou Toumani Toure, who steered the Sahel nation to democracy and led it for a decade before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday. Toure "died during the night of Monday to Tuesday...

Sahel: Gunmen ambush bus in Mali, kill eight peopleF

Gunmen have killed eight people in central Mali, a local official and security ministry staffer said Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit the war-torn Sahel state. Militants attacked a minibus Tuesday, the officials said, which was travelling between the towns of...

Sahel: France drags European troops into a conflict they cannot winF

Inside a military base in northern Mali, a concrete bollard emblazoned with French, Estonian and Swedish flags marks a zone reserved for a new anti-jihadist unit of elite European troops. Dubbed Task Force Takuba, the new joint deployment marks a coup for France,...

Sahel: As expected, France opposes dialogue in the SahelF

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, on a trip to Mali on Monday, ruled out dialogue with jihadists driving an eight-year-old insurgency in the Sahel state.  (See our opinion on this last week).   "Let's say things very clearly. There are peace accords (with...

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