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Within weeks, Mali has plunged from being a sovereign democracy to a fractured territory without a state, occupied by competing rebel groups in the north while politicians and coup leaders in the south jostle for control of the capital (...)
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Spillover from the overthrow of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi last year has been stirring a toxic cocktail of rebels, weapons, refugees, drought, smugglers and violent militants in Africa's turbulent Sahel region.
Now this backwash of (...)
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The bombing of a UN office in Nigeria has deepened fears that Al-Qaeda's influence on militant groups in sub-Saharan Africa is growing, although the extent of its involvement remains murky.
Experts say increasing numbers of Nigerians are (...)
FLEEING for their lives just two years after voting in elections, civilians in east Congo must wonder what it will take to ever pacify their rich but flawed nation.
Gunfire and artillery have, for now, been replaced by flurries of diplomacy. But (...)
COCAINE smuggling is fanning political turbulence and undermining investment confidence in West Africa, where drugs experts say Latin American gangs threaten to transform small nations into “narco-states.”
Unexpected seizures from Guinea-Bissau and (...)
