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Senegal at the Center of Another Geopolitical FightF

By Arezki Daoud: France is experiencing an unprecedented backlash in the Sahel and in West Africa.  Disastrous post-colonial policies forced the people of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to expel French troops and diplomats, reducing Paris' entrenched but...

Mali: Al Qaeda attacks rebel convoy in the Ouagadou forestF

By MondAfrique:  A column of armed vehicles from the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), the Touareg rebel coalition driven out of Kidal, was attacked by fighters from the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) on Friday in the Ouagadou forest, while that it was...

Niger tries artificial rainmaking to ease droughtF

Niger has deployed rainmaking planes in a bid to alleviate a drought that has sparked fears of a food crisis in the desert nation, weather authorities said Thursday. "We had to do something about this drought," said Katiellou Gaptia Lawan, head of the national...

Sahel: Mali bans hookah smokingF

"Shisha-abana," exclaims Bilal, a grocer in Mali's capital Bamako, in the national language Bambara: "Shisha is finished." His is a common reaction. An unexpected ban on hookah smoking in this West African country has stirred surprise as well as division, leaving...

Sahel: Country of Chad suffering from devastating floodsF

Torrential rains have caused 340,000 people to lose property or flee their homes in Chad in almost two months since late June, the United Nations said Wednesday. "Recent rainfall has affected more than 341,000 people in 11 of the 23 provinces of Chad," the UN's...

Sahel: Togo confronted with Jihadi movement from the SahelF

Togo's armed forces said Tuesday they had repelled a "terrorist" attack that injured "several" soldiers in the far northern village of Blamonga on the border with Burkina Faso. The attack, which took place on Monday, was the fifth in the country since last year, as...

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