spurned Russia's recent outreach in Africa's Sahel region. Russia has been moving to edge out the

emergency health services in the Sahel region, the WHO regional office for Africa said on Friday. With

Come December, it will no longer be able to rely on French aerial reconnaissance, intelligence or ground support. Mali's junta has teamed up with mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group, accused by the U.N.of human rights abuses.... Officials remain cagey about Washington's next move." We have not made any significant changes to our forces' posture," U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said in Nairobi on Monday.... Washington wanted a peaceful resolution and the" preservation of Niger's demo

visit to allies in the Sahel region, where French-led military operations against Islamist militants

Deby's death caused chaos in Chad, a key ally of Western powers in the fight against Islamists in

DAKAR( Reuters)-Chad's former President Hissene Habre, an ally of the West during the Cold War who

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But the force has been hobbled by a lack of funding and has struggled to reduce the violence.... The statement by Mali's junta, which ousted former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and took power in a 2020 coup, blamed a lack of progress in the fight against the Islamists and the failure to hold recent meetings in Mali.... The move further isolates Mali, which has also be slapped with sanctions from West Africa's regional political bloc, hitting jobs and industry in the impoverished country.(

Bound by a common destiny on issues of instability, security, the threat of terrorism, economic backwardness, etc. , the Republics of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger decided to unite primarily because they were faced with the threat of ECOWAS military intervention in Niger, and also because it was nece

interests in the Sahel region.... A further 1, 000 troops are in neighbouring Chad, where Paris has been