The Russian mercenary group – Wagner - is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry outraids and drone strikes killing scores of civilians, rights groups said in reports published this week.
Following military coups in all three nations in recent years, the ruling military juntas have expelled French forces and turned to Russia's mercenary units for security assistance instead.
The juntas ruling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso earlier this month announced a joint security force to fight the worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region.
Five Sudanese families who fled to Egypt and later moved to Libya in search of work and better living conditions
The French newspaper Le Monde is reporting that Morocco is hoping that with the return to the White House of
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is in Cairo to press local officials to release a jailed British Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced that it has prevented 78,685 irregular migration attempts in 2024. The Ministry said that
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