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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...

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...

Ten people were killed when a makeshift gold mine collapsed in western Burkina Faso, a miners' association said on Thursday. "In the early hours of February 8, miners... were trapped" near the town of Hounde, according to Abasse Derra, an official with the local gold...

Dozens of Tunisian civil society organisations,parties and political figures on Thursday voiced their "full support" for the powerful UGTT trade union, accusing President Kaid Saied of "targeting" it. The top UGTT official for highway workers, Anis Kaabi, was arrested...