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    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Alice Diop on her film Saint Omer: ‘It questions the complexity of the maternal bond’

      The director discusses dramatising the trial of a woman who left her child to die — and why it reflects ‘a very French form of racism’

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso orders French troops to leave the country

      Military junta says domestic forces will defend against Islamists amid claims of ties to Russia

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      US foreign policy
      Yellen to visit African countries as US steps up overtures

      Washington is seeking to entice nations away from financial and resource ties to China

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      African politics
      Mali pardons detained Ivorian soldiers

      Gesture by Assimi Goïta resolves dispute amid threats of sanctions being imposed by Ecowas bloc

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
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      Bamako Encounters photography festival pulsates with revolutionary spirit

      The Malian biennale showcases artists from the African continent and diaspora at a precarious time for the country

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso latest to ‘hire Russian mercenaries’, Ghana alleges

      Akufo-Addo tells Blinken that Wagner Group has ‘entered into an arrangement’ with Ouagadougou to fight jihadist revolt

    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
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      Tougher challenge against France awaits in World Cup quarter-final

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
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      Farmers struggle to make ends meet in unpredictable weather that has become the ‘new normal’

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Raffaello Pantucci
      Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies

      As western counter-terrorism efforts flounder, Kremlin-backed militias are offering support in Mali and Burkina Faso

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
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      Security forces struggle to cope with upsurge in Sahel jihadi violence

      Latest military takeover in Burkina Faso comes as region faces highest death toll for a decade

    • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
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      Burkina Faso coup leader says ‘situation is under control’

      Army captain Ibrahim Traoré’s supporters take to the streets and attack French institutions

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Africa
      Burkina Faso hit by second coup in eight months

      Army captain introduced on TV as new leader after escalating violence

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
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      Niger: the west’s bulwark against jihadis and Russian influence in Africa

      The country is emerging as a critical ally in a neighbourhood of failing states

    • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
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      Discovering Dakar, the coastal capital on Africa’s westernmost tip

      The rally is long gone, but Sarah Provan relishes the city’s laidback streetlife, beaches and markets — plus a pink lake and a North Korean behemoth

    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
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      Francis Kéré becomes first African architect to win Pritzker Prize

      Born in Burkina Faso, the Berlin-based laureate has built both innovative village schools and global prestige projects

    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
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      A brewing catastrophe in the Sahel

      Mali’s use of Russian mercenaries complicates an already dangerous situation

    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
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      France to refocus anti-terror campaign as it leaves Mali

      European forces will shift support to Niger and Sahel’s coastal states after being pushed out of west African country

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
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      Mali coup forces France to reorganise anti-terror operations in west Africa

      Paris wants to redeploy forces to other Sahel countries as relations with Bamako deteriorate

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
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      Attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau thwarted

      Heavy gunfire in capital marks latest instance of political instability in west Africa

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
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      The world cannot afford inaction on the security challenges facing west Africa

      Terrorism, climate change and piracy in the region require a co-ordinated international effort

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
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      Mali expels French ambassador over ‘outrageous remarks’

      Envoy given 72 hours to leave Bamako after Paris criticises ‘out of control’ ruling junta

    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
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      Denmark begins withdrawing special forces troops from Mali

      Withdrawal of troops from French-led counterterror mission comes as Bamako reinforces Russian ties

    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso’s president overthrown in military coup

      Latest military takeover in west Africa in eight months as jihadist insurgency roils region

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Mali
      Mali’s neighbours impose sanctions over election delay

      West African countries close borders to landlocked country at centre of jihadi insurgency in the Sahel

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
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      Sudan's painful struggle for democracy

      What next after the failure of the interim government?

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