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Junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have agreed to set up a joint force to tackle security threats across their territories, Niger’s armed forces chief Moussa Salaou Barmou said on Wednesday after a meeting with his counterparts. The…
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Attacks on an army base and a passenger boat on the Niger River in northern Mali on Thursday by suspected jihadists killed 64 people, a Malian official said. The two separate attacks targeted the Timbuktu boat on the Niger river and an…
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Eight soldiers and 57 “terrorists” were killed in clashes at a rebel base in northern Mali where rival terrorist groups, including the so-called Daesh, are active, the Malian army said on Saturday. Friday’s fighting followed an air raid…
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