Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who was abducted in Mali's Gao region (north) on April 8, 2021 by the al Qaeda-linked Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), was released on Monday and taken to…
Burkina Faso said on Saturday that a process to select a transitional president ahead of elections would begin next week following a coup by disaffected military officers against a ruling junta.
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Burkina Faso's new rulers say they seized power to better fight jihadists, but history in the Sahel suggests the coup will merely stoke turbulence and division, benefitting the insurgents, analysts say.