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Says it is working with the International Criminal Court to document violations “to ensure accountability”.

EU ‘appalled’ by reports of 1,000 casualties in Darfur

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have allegedly killed over 1000 non-Arab Masalit people in West Darfur, in what has been described as a "campaign of ethnic cleansing" amid Sudan's raging civil war.

Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have been spreading for years from the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert -- the Sahel -- into wealthier West African coastal states like Benin. Militants once were believed to want to use coastal nations like Benin, Togo and Ghana as bases for attacks on Sahel governments. Now militancy is taking root.

Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have been spreading for years from the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert -- the Sahel -- into wealthier West African coastal states like Benin. Militants once were believed to want to use coastal nations like Benin, Togo and Ghana as bases for attacks on Sahel governments. Now militancy is taking root.