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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%...

Sahel: Senegalese President begs Germany to not abandon MaliF

Senegalese President Macky Sall on Monday urged Germany to keep its troops in Mali, amid uncertainty over their future in the fragile Sahel country after France announced a military withdrawal. The call came at a news conference in Senegal's capital Dakar with German...

Sahel: The Burkina Faso coup: Not so bloodless after allF

Two civilians were killed and a dozen injured in last month's coup in Burkina Faso, an event that had previously been hailed as bloodless, the authorities said on Monday, adding that junta leader and interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba had ordered an...

Sahel: 18 civilians killed in Jihadist attack in west NigerF

Eighteen civilians have been killed in two suspected jihadist attacks in the west of Niger near the Sahel nation's border with Mali, the government said Tuesday. The attack happened on Sunday when unidentified "armed bandits" on motorbikes attacked a truck travelling...

Sahel: Explosion at illegal gold mine in Burkina Faso kills 63F

The death toll from an accidental explosion at an illegal gold mine in southwestern Burkina Faso rose on Tuesday to 63, the authorities said, adding that they had made an arrest. "We have 63 dead and around 40 injured," the public prosecutor in the town of Gaoua,...

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