Chad in turmoil
MADJIASRA NAKO and MAHAMAT RAMADANE THE son of Chad’s slain leader Idriss Deby took over as president and armed forces
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Islamist militants
Egypt targets suspected killers’ cell
EGYPTIAN security forces have shot dead three suspected Islamist militants accused of targeting Coptic Christians and involvement in the execution-style
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‘French air strike killed 19 at Mali wedding party’
PAUL LORGERIE A French air strike in January killed 19 civilians and three armed men at a wedding in the
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Indonesian church bombed by suspected Islamist militants
AGUSTINUS BEO DA COSTA ND STANLEY WIDIANTO TWO suicide bombers believed to be members of an Islamist militant group attacked
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‘French strike killed civilians’
PAUL LORGERIE and TIEMOKO DIALLO LOCAL officials in northern Mali have accused France’s army of killing six civilians in an
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30 soldiers killed in four days in Nigeria
ISLAMIST militants have killed about 30 government soldiers in a series of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Wednesday, military and
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A decade after Syria’s war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart
SEHAMU Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home
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Suspected Islamists kill 9 civilians in Mali
SUSPECTED Islamist militants riding 4×4 vehicles and armed with machine guns killed nine civilians in attacks on three villages in
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Mali plans talks with Islamist militants
MALI’S government has created a body to open talks with Islamist militants whose insurgency has made vast portions of the
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More soldiers sent into the Sahel
MADJIARA NAKO and MICHEL ROSE FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron ruled out an immediate reduction of French troops battling Islamist militants
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