The junta-leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will hold their first ever joint summit this weekend. The “Alliance of Sahel States” meeting will be held in Niger’s capital Niamey. In mid-May, the foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger agreed in Niamey on a draft text creating the confederation, which the heads of states are expected to adopt at Saturday’s summit. The three countries, which have faced deadly jihadist violence, also aim to create a common currency.
A total of 191 Nigerian migrants, including 111 women, have been voluntarily repatriated from Libya, the International Organization for Migration
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Egypt’s recent joint military exercises with China—the first of their kind—raised eyebrows across the global defense community.
Tunisian authorities on Thursday have evacuated a camp housing around 3,000 illegal migrants in the port city of Sfax,
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