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Senegal’s outgoing president prepares for disgraced exitF

By Francis Sahel, Mondafrique:  In the absence of any other alternative, Senegalese President Mack Sall announced last Friday his intention to comply with the Constitutional Council’s decision to hold the presidential election and leave power by April 2. The Council’s...

Africa’s 2024 Elections Off to a Bad StartF

By Arezki Daoud: It’s an election year in Africa and it already started badly. The East African island of Comoros in the Indian Ocean opened the election cycle on 14 January, with autocratic figure Azali Assoumani “re-elected” for a third term, presumably winning 63%...

Inside Chad: Violence, oil wealth and povertyF

Chad is an oil-rich but deeply poor African nation that has become a key regional ally of the West in the fight against jihadists. On Monday its military government and opposition groups signed a deal for talks aimed at staging elections later this year. Some key...

Sahel: Suspected jihadists kill 4 Mali soldiers, 2 civilians in TessitF

At least four soldiers, two civilians and five assailants were killed on Sunday in an attack in a strategic border zone between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, Mali's army said. The army blamed the attack on "terrorists" in an announcement late Sunday, using the term it...

Sahelian country of Chad looking for path to peaceF

By Tim Witcher and Dylan Gamba in Libreville Chad's military government and more than 40 opposition groups signed a deal Monday to launch national peace talks this month, but the main rebel outfit refused to take part. United Nations and African Union leaders urged...

Sudan condemns Chadian group’s killing of 18F

Sudan's foreign ministry on Saturday condemned the killing of 18 Sudanese people during an attack by an armed group from Chad, state media reported. The killings took place Thursday when Sudanese herders from West Darfur state were ambushed while following the trails...

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