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Macron says France to “decapitate” Al-Qaeda in the Sahel France will intensify its efforts to help "decapitate" Qaeda-linked groups in the Sahel, President Emmanuel Macron told regional leaders via video conference on Tuesday, according to AFP. Macron said the efforts...

More than two million people have been forced to flee their homes within their own countries' borders owing to violence engulfing Africa's Sahel region, the United Nations said on Friday. The humanitarian response is "dangerously overstretched" in an area covering...

More troops killed by roadside bomb in central Mali Three Malian troops were killed and five wounded by a roadside bomb in the centre of the country Thursday, military sources said, in the latest attack in the Sahel state. The three -- members of the National Guard, a...

Four soldiers were killed and eight others seriously injured by a roadside bomb in southeastern Niger, a region hit by jihadist attacks, the government said. The troops were pursuing "terrorists" on Monday following an attack the previous day on a military position in...