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Africa
BAE awarded $225 million APKWS rocket contract for US, Nigeria, Netherlands
BAE Systems was awarded a $225 million contract to produce Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System units for Nigeria and the Netherlands
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Africa
Chad president Deby says rebel convoy ‘destroyed’ by 3 days of French airstrikes
Chadian President Idriss Deby said a column of rebels which had sought to cross into the country from Libya had been "destroyed" in a series of French airstrikes
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Africa
Ex-jihadists among 5,000 to sign up for Mali disarmament program
Some 5,000 fighters signed up to a disarmament program in Mali's conflict-plagued central region, including suspected ex-jihadists
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Europe
Macedonia signs NATO accession papers
Macedonia signed accession papers with NATO, a key step on the way to joining the alliance
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Africa
Gunmen kill 26 in seven villages in Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria
Gunmen killed 26 people in seven villages in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state, in the latest violence to hit the troubled region
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Africa
Central African peace deal initialed, but contents still unpublished
The government of the Central African Republic and 14 armed groups took a further step towards signing a new peace accord
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Africa
ISIS ambush in southwest Egypt injures 4 police officers
Four Egyptian policeman were injured in an ambush in the southwest of the country, a security source said, in an attack claimed by ISIS
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Africa
Boko Haram ‘kill six’ in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa and Borno states
Boko Haram in Nigeria killed six people in a series of attacks in Adamawa and Borno states while the military targeted insurgents in Mallam Fatori and Arege
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Africa
Burkina Faso: 14 civilians killed in attack in Yatenta near Mali border
The attack in the town of Kain in the Yatenta province bordering Mali, is one of the most serious recorded in Burkina Faso and came on the eve of a G5 Sahel summit
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Europe
Germany pledges €110 million to boost NATO battalion infrastructure in Lithuania
Germany will invest €110 million (US$127 million) in military infrastructure in Lithuania until 2021, its defense minister said on a Monday, February 4 a visit to mark two years since NATO installed battalions in the Baltic region to ward off Russia. In 2017, NATO deployed four multinational battalions to Poland and the Baltic states as a counter against possible Russian action following its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Germany leads the NATO battalion in Lithuania comprising 1,200 troops from 10 countries. “We’re going to invest in the long-term engagement,” Ursula von der Leyen told reporters, adding that Berlin would invest in “common barracks and training fields” in Lithuania until 2021. Lithuania’s defense minister Raimundas Karoblis hailed Germany’s spending plans as evidence of commitment to the NATO deployment. “We have heard very officially, very clearly at the political level … that Germany is for the long run here and will stay here as long as the security situation will demand it,” Karoblis said. The other three NATO battalions deployed in 2017 are based in Estonia, Latvia and Poland and are led by the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, respectively. The three Baltic states, with a combined population of …
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