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Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday evening the recall of the French ambassador to Niger, and the departure of the 1,500 French soldiers stationed there: the end of a dangerous impasse. France is being forced to wholly review its African policy.

Two were killed and five injured after jihadist rebels allegedly fired mortar shells in the historic Malian city of Timbuktu Thursday.

As Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso develop ties with Russia, the danger is mounting that the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine will explode across Africa.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations 78th General Assembly in New York, Zelensky told him that the African Peace Initiative undertaken in June was beginning to bear fruit

One of the armed groups from northern Mali has called for a fullyscale war against the junta. This despite attempts at dialogue and fears for the peace deal between the ex-rebels and government forces.

Two weeks ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated following contentious harmonised elections in Zimbabwe, with the Sadc Election Observer Mission and the European Union Observer Mission raising red flags about the unconstitutionality of processes leading to the elections.

Von der Leyen calls for a bolder strategy amid the wave of putsches and deepening crisis in the Sahel, European Union officials are scrambling to revise their approach to the Sahel and West Africa after being blindsided by the military coups détat in Niger and Gabon.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations 78th General Assembly in New York, Zelensky told him that the African Peace Initiative undertaken in June was beginning to bear fruit

This edition of the program is about the unity among some African nations against foreign colonial attacks on their national integrity.

The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Saturday signed a mutual defence pact, ministerial delegations from the three Sahel countries announced in Mali's capital Bamako.