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France rejects Mali's accusations that it helped arm Islamist fighters
France on Thursday denied accusations by Mali's foreign minister that the French army has provided support to Islamist groups and violated Malian airspace. Mali's relations with Paris have been deteriorating since a junta took power in an August 2020 coup, eventually culminating in the withdrawal of French troops that was completed on Monday after a nearly decade-long mission.
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Protests in Kenya as Ruto declared winner of presidential race
William Ruto was declared the winner of Kenya's close-fought presidential poll on a day of high drama Monday, with violent protests in his defeated rival's strongholds, claims of rigging and a split in the commission that oversaw the vote.
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Guinea dissolves leading opposition group amid political unrest
Guinea’s junta-appointed government has dissolved the country’s leading opposition movement, the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), under a decree authenticated by AFP on Tuesday.
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15 dead in bar shooting in Soweto, say South African police
It's believed more than 1 gunman fired at patrons, police commissioner says
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