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Sahel: Fever Outbreak Overwhelms Mauritanian Hospitals$

Hospitals in Mauritania are under growing strain as an outbreak of an unidentified fever spreads through the country’s two largest cities, Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, raising alarm among residents and health professionals. Regional hospitals in both cities are...

Mauritania: Water Scarcity Sparks Protests in Chami$

Residents of Chami, a mining hub in western Mauritania, have taken to the streets to protest severe and prolonged water shortages that have left parts of the city without running water for days. Demonstrations erupted on October 15 outside the local offices of the...

Mauritania Battles Dual Outbreaks Amid Sahel’s Shifting Climate$

Mauritania is contending with concurrent outbreaks of diphtheria and Rift Valley fever that have left at least 36 people dead in recent weeks. The twin crises expose persistent gaps in public health capacity at a moment when the country is also battling the seasonal...

Sahel Displacement Hits 4 Million: UN Warns of Growing Crisis$

By MondAfrique: On October 10, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sounded the alarm: around 4 million people are currently displaced in the Sahel, an unprecedented figure. The UNHCR statement highlights the scale of the humanitarian crisis,...

Sahel and West Africa junta regimes seek reentry to regional blocsF

Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups called for their reinstatement into two key regional blocs on Thursday following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The top diplomats of Mali, Guinea and Burkina...

Sahel: Mali fires six senior army officers, including top army leader, as Tuareg groups in the north unifyF

Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved of their functions on Wednesday, the country's junta-run government said. The four others are the heads of military security, the gendarmerie police...

Sahel: Ministers of three countries controlled by juntas meet after visit of Russia’s LavrovF

Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday on the heels of a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov.  The talks brought together ministers from Mali, Guinea and Burkina -- countries...

Burkina Faso: New terror attack in Sahel province kills 18 peopleF

At least 18 people have been killed in two attacks in Burkina Faso, sources briefed on the incidents told AFP on Sunday, as violence rages in the Sahel nation. The country faces a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015, with thousands of...

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