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On tonight’s show we focus on situation in Mali, as a full withdrawal of French troops fighting Islamist separatists there is thought to be imminent. French President Emmanuel Macron has been meeting with African and European counterparts during a dinner in Paris on Wednesday. He is expected to confirm the …

Cette fois c’est imminent : la France et ses partenaires sont sur le point de quitter le Mali. Emmanuel Macron doit annoncer ce jeudi un retrait des forces françaises de l’opération Barkhane, en marge du sommet Union européenne – Union africaine à Bruxelles. Le président français réunit ce soir plusieurs dirigeants africains …

France is poised to announce the withdrawal of its military mission in Mali, Operation Barkhane, after nine years of battling jihadists in the region. At the request of Malian authorities, France launched an intervention in January 2013 to oust Islamists who had taken over much of the north.

Le lieutenant-colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba a été investi, mercredi, président du Burkina Faso par le Conseil constitutionnel, trois semaines après avoir pris le pouvoir par un coup d’État.

Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a coup to topple elected head of state Roch Marc Christian Kabore.

With the imminent announcement of the withdrawal of French troops, Mali’s transitional government will have a free hand to negotiate directly with jihadist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda. 

In tonight’s edition: Ethiopia lifts its wartime state of emergency, which was imposed when Tigrayan rebels threatened to advance on the capital last November. Also, Liberia celebrates 200 years since the country’s birth with a mass rally. And we take you to Central African Republic, where peanut farming is essential to the …

Sous pression de la junte au pouvoir à Bamako, Paris et ses partenaires européens s’apprêtent à annoncer leur retrait du Mali, tout en préparant les contours du futur dispositif militaire régional français. Dans le même temps, les groupes jihadistes conservent leur pouvoir de nuisance au Sahel et menacent les pays …

Tigrayan fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, the latest example of the horrific toll exacted by the 15-month war.

French President Emmanuel Macron this week will announce that French troops will be withdrawn from Mali and redeployed elsewhere in the Sahel following a breakdown in ties with the country’s military regime, concurring sources say.