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CLEAN : Nigerien president meets French defence minister
Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou hosts French defence minister Florence Parly who is on a whistle stop tour to northern Africa's Sahel countries (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : Burundi's ex-president to appeal conviction of predecessor's murder
Former Burundian president Pierre Buyoya, current High Representative of the African Union for Mali and the Sahel, announces that he will appeal against his conviction in absentia in Burundi to life imprisonment for the assassination of...
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CLEAN : FILE/Burkina Faso elections: Yacouba Isaac Zida, presidential candidate
Burkina Faso's former transition prime minister Yacouba Isaac Zida, currently in exile in Canada, is a candidate in the 22 November presidential election in the insurgency-hit Sahel nation (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Bodies of four Ivorian peacekeepers killed in Mali return home
The bodies of four Ivorian peacekeepers killed during their UN Mission in Mali (Minusma) are returned to Ivory Coast (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : FILE: Two million internally displaced by Sahel violence (UN)
More than two million people have been forced to flee their homes within their own countries' borders owing to violence engulfing Africa's Sahel region, according to the United Nations (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Tributes paid to first female French soldier killed in Mali after jihadist attack
Colleagues have paid tribute to Sergeant Yvonne Huynh, 33, the mother of a young child and the first female soldier killed since the French operation began in the Sahel region (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : FILE: Death toll from Mali base attack rises to 31
At least 31 Malian soldiers were killed in an attack in the north of the country on Monday, according to an updated death toll (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : PROFILE: Prime Minister of Chad Albert Pahimi Padacke
Chad's new military junta has named former prime minister Albert Pahimi Padacke, who was runner-up in the Sahel country's April 11 presidential election, as interim premier (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : West African leaders meet to discuss Mali double coup
West African leaders meet in Ghana to discuss a response to Mali's second coup in nine months, which has sparked warnings of fresh sanctions and deep concerns over stability in the volatile Sahel region (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Malians react to French troop drawdown in Sahel
Residents of the Malian capital of Bamako react to French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement of a reduction in the French military presence in the Sahel (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : ECOWAS 'reassured' Mali intends to restore civilian rule
ECOWAS commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou says that the 15-nation West African bloc was "reassured" that Mali's leaders intend to restore civilian rule in the Sahel state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Swearing-in ceremony for Mali's Colonel Assimi Goita
Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita addresses his country after he is sworn in as transitional president of the chronically unstable Sahel state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Head of IS in Sahel 'succumbed to his wounds' after Barkhane strike
French Defence Minister Florence Parly says the head of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) "succumbed to his wounds" following a strike in August 2021 by France's Barkhane force, which battles jihadists across the arid expanses...
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CLEAN : Death of jihadist leader in Sahel 'a decisive blow' to the IS group: French defence minister
He was the absolute leader of the ISGS and took all the decisions (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Guterres to AFP: "We have to avoid an economic collapse" in Afghanistan
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleads with the international community, during an interview with AFP, to maintain a dialogue with the Taliban in Afghanistan, warning that an "economic collapse" with possibly millions dying must be...
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CLEAN : UN delegation arrives in Mali, urged to press junta over abuses
UN Security Council delegates, led by the ambassadors from the US, France and Niger, arrive in Bamako for two days of talks to push the military-led interim government for a return to democracy after two coups in nine months (Footage by...
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CLEAN : Niger's Great Green Wall tentatively comes to life
The African Union's 'Great Green Wall' project takes root in Niger, hoping to transform the Simiri plateau from a desolate landscape to a haven for flora and fauna (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Senegal's foreign minister appeals to China for help in the Sahel
A day ahead of the opening of the forum on Sino-African cooperation in Dakar, Senegal's Minister of Foreign Affairs meets with her Chinese counterpart to request China's "strong" involvement in the "problem of insecurity in the Sahel...
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CLEAN : 'Absolutely no redeployment' of Barkhane forces in Niger: commander
The commander of the Barkhane military operation, General Laurent Michon, says there are no plans to redeploy or reposition Barkhane forces in Niger (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Up to 18 million people in Sahel region to face severe food insecurity in next 3 months: UN
Up to 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region will face severe food insecurity over the next three months, the highest number since 2014, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns (Footage by...
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CLEAN : Analyst reflects after ICoast asks Mali to release its detained soldiers
Following the arrest of Ivorian soldiers at Mali's Bamako airport, accused of being "mercenaries" by the Malian authorities, Dr Aly Tounkara, Executive Director of the Centre for Security and Strategic Studies in the Sahel and political...
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CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: France's Barkhane Operation in Niger and Chad
Illustrative images of various activities of the Barkhane force in Niamey (Niger) and N'Djamena (Chad): a joint coordination centre, an air base housing Mirage 2000Ds and a cooperation operation with a local Chadian association (Footage...
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CLEAN : Africa wants to 'serve herself' not 'wait to be served': Senegal's Tall Sall
At the closing ceremony of the 8th edition of the Dakar International Forum, a conference of leaders and experts on security in Africa, the Senegalese diplomacy chief Aïssata Tall Sall declares that the continent wants "be at the table...
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CLEAN : West African states meet for 'timely' conference on security, in Accra
Representatives from West African coastal states meet for the Accra Initiative conference to discuss security in the region and how to boost cooperation against jihadist violence spilling over from the Sahel (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...