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  Jihadist attack on Mali military camp leaves 19 dead

  Agence France-Presse . Bamako, Mali | Updated at 01:52am on January 27, 2020

  Nineteen members of the security forces died and five were wounded on Sunday in a major assault by suspected jihadists at a military camp in...

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  UN slams Libya arms embargo violations despite Berlin pledges

  Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 11:41pm on January 26, 2020

  The United Nations mission to Libya has slammed on-going violations of a UN Security Council arms embargo, despite commitments made a week ago at an...

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  19 killed in South Sudan attack

  Agence France-Presse . Juba | Updated at 10:10pm on January 23, 2020

  At least 19 people were killed Wednesday when suspected nomadic Misseriya herders from Sudan attacked a village in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei along...

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  Document trove shows how Africa’s richest woman stole fortune: ICIJ

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:19am on January 21, 2020

  An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files Sunday allegedly showing how Africa’s richest woman syphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money...

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  Libya summit seeks end to foreign meddling

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 02:02am on January 20, 2020

  World leaders made a fresh push for peace in Libya at a summit in Berlin on Sunday, in a desperate bid to stop the conflict-wracked...

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  South Sudan talks fail to end impasse

  Agence France-Presse . Juba | Updated at 12:26am on January 18, 2020

  The latest round of peace talks between South Sudan’s two rival leaders has failed to strike a deal on the vital issue of internal boundaries,...

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  IS-aligned jihadists release 5 kidnapped NGO workers in Nigeria

  Agence France-Presse . Kano, Nigeria | Updated at 04:42pm on January 16, 2020

  Islamic State-aligned jihadists have released five local aid workers abducted last month in violence-wracked northeastern Nigeria, security sources and one of those freed said Thursday...

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  Libya ceasefire agreed after months of fighting

  Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 10:55pm on January 12, 2020

  Both sides in Libya’s conflict agreed to a ceasefire from Sunday to end nine months of fighting following weeks of international diplomacy and calls for...

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  IS linked jihadists kill five people in northeast Nigeria

  Agence France-Presse . Kano, Nigeria | Updated at 03:00pm on January 12, 2020

  Jihadists linked with the Islamic State militant group killed five members of a militia in an offensive in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, militia sources told...

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  18 UN troops, 2 civilians injured in Mali mortar attack

  Agence France-Presse . Bamako, Mali | Updated at 12:01am on January 10, 2020

  Eighteen UN troops and two civilians were wounded Thursday in a mortar attack on a military base in northern Mali, a UN official said, in...