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Somali gov’t, al-Shabab deny peace talks as president calls on militants to surrender

Both the Somali government and the al-Shabab militant group have denied having held peace talks, which comes after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had called on “brainwashed” young al-Shabab fighters to surrender to the government amid ongoing military offensives against the group. The denial came from a senior government official Saturday after Abdulfatah Kasim Mohamud, a […]

Sahel policy needs revision after Europe failed to bolster democracy there — EU’s top diplomat

Despite the €600 million spent by the European Union on training security personnel in the Sahel, the countries in the region had “failed to bolster democracy,” the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell has admitted in the wake of a series of recent coups, the latest of which were in Niger and Gabon. Speaking at […]

Five dead in landslide in Côte d’Ivoire

Five people were killed Sunday in a landslide in the popular Commune of Yopougon of the Ivorian economic capital Abidjan washed by heavy rains. “On Sunday June 11 at 03H11 mn, the 4th Yopougon brigade company was alerted about a landslide in Yopougon’s millionaire district, at the height of Saint Louis junior secondary school in […]