In recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, ...

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The al-Qaida-linked JNIM extremist group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attack on several Malian army positions in the country's west and central regions. One position was in Diboli, ...