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Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger’s ruling military junta said.

DAKAR, Senegal — For a foreign correspondent ... an al-Qaida’s affiliate in the Sahel. Or so he thought. En route to the interview in Gao, northern Mali, in April 2021, Dubois, a correspondent ...