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North Africa and the Sahel
Stories under this heading cover North Africa and the Sahel. North Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. It stretches from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania to Egypt's Suez Canal and the Red Sea. The Sahel spans from the eastern shores of the African continent, starting from Sudan and continuing up to the Atlantic shores of Mauritania and Senegal.
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UN Secretary-General calls for end to war in Sudan that is ‘spiralling out of control’
6 November 2025
The United Nations Secretary-General has warned that the war in Sudan is “spiralling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the besieged and famine-stricken Darfur city of el-Fasher. Speaking in Qatar during the opening of the World Summit for Social Development on 4th November, Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in the two-year conflict that has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
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The third attack targeting an educational institution in Nigeria in less than three weeks
21 June 2021
A girls' university in northwest Nigeria was targeted in an attack on Thursday (17 June) that resulted in the death of a police officer and the kidnapping of three teachers and an unknown number of students, police have said.
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Benghazi hosts a 'week of culture'
16 June 2021
Libya's city of Benghazi is hosting a 'week of culture' which is features art, music and theatre. Much of the artwork depicts war and recovering from it, as Libya's citizens prepare to turn a new chapter towards peace.
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Terrorist attack kills 160 civilians in Burkina Faso
7 June 2021
160 civilians have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in Solhan, a northern village of Burkina Faso near the country’s borders with Mali and Niger. The attack, which took place on the night of 4-5 June at 2am, is one of the deadliest in the country since jihadist violence began in 2015.
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France suspends military co-operation with Mali
4 June 2021
France had already threatened sanctions and the withdrawal of its troops from Mali following the coup which brought to power Colonel Assimi Goïta. The French republic has now gone from threat to action, choosing to suspend "as a precautionary and temporary measure" its bilateral military co-operation with the Sahel country.