MALI

UN says G5 Sahel force needs more support in anti-jihadist fight

South Africa football legend Neil Tovey says a club-versus-country tug of war over the team to compete in an Olympic Games qualifying tournament from this weekend is a "disgrace".

An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso killed 37 people on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country.

French Defence Minister Florence Parly looked to reassure Mali of the support of European forces after a devastating jihadist attack that left dozens of soldiers dead

Mali's military is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency

A French peace-keeping soldier was killed in Mali over the weekend as well as two more Mali troops

Fulani herders have been the main target of jihadist recruiters

UN, African and French forces in the G5 Sahel region

Mali's army has been struggling in the face of a jihadist revolt that has spread from the arid north to its centre, an ethnically mixed and volatile region

Niger has been battling increasing cross-border attacks from Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram

The Malian army has few means to pursue the jihadists, who have been using classic guerrilla tactics in in vast, arid country

Extreme weather events are common in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries

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The city's market is a local hub but officials say economic activity has fallen

A woman, who is among the 300,000 internally displaced because of jihadist violence in northern and eastern Burkina Faso, is pictured in September 2019

Protest: Mali's mounting security problems are spurring public anger

Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.Officers raided a building in the Rigasa area of the city on Thursday where the victims including adults and minors were kept in "the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them", Kaduna state police spokesman Yakubu Sabo told AFP.

The UN and several Western nations expressed concern over the promotion of Major General Shavendra Silva

Pintu Mali was in his “makeshift house in the middle of the field” in Kalagudha region under the Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary when he was mauled by the “sub-adult male tiger” known as “T-104.”

A majority of those stranded by the collapse of the airline Aigle Azur have yet to return home

The G5 Sahel urgently needs funds to help train and equip its fledgling anti-terror force