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Mali's junta announced Sunday that it will quit a West African anti-jihadist force after it was blocked from assuming the presidency of the regional group. The country's departure from the G5 Sahel security force deepens its isolation after its neighbours hit it with...

An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday.  Guermit Bounouira, who was known to be close to late army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah,...

Around 40 people, many of them civilian volunteers with the army, have been killed in suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, local sources and security officials said on Monday.  In the northern region of Sahel, around 25 people were killed in two assaults on...

Mauritania has made progress in battling slavery but still has its work cut out to abolish the practice, the UN envoy on the issue said Friday. Slavery has been officially banned since 1981 and classified as a crime  against humanity in the Sahel country, but...