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13 October

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Kenyan police killed by roadside bomb in Garissa near Somalia border

A number of Kenyan police officers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Garissa near the Somali border

8 October

UN Mi-35 helicopter Minusca Central African Republic

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Fourth Senegalese UN peacekeeper dies after Central Africa helicopter crash

A fourth Senegalese United Nations peacekeeper has died after he was injured in a combat helicopter crash in the Central African Republic two weeks ago

8 October

Nigerien officer conducts training during Exercise Flintlock 2017

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Niger soldiers killed in ‘terrorist’ attack in southwestern Dosso region

Two soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a "terrorist" attack in the in the Dogondoutchi department of the Dosso region of southwest Niger

7 October

Joseph Hammond

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Central African conflict informs Portuguese procurement and UN peacekeeping

Portugal’s combat experience in Central African Republic is changing the armed forces’ modernization plans and the future of UN peacekeeping

6 October

Fergus Kelly

Mali: UN peacekeeper killed, 5 injured in attacks in Aguelhok and Bandiagara

A UN peacekeeper was killed and four others injured when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb near Aguelhok in northern Mali

6 October

Staff Writer With AFP

Burkina Faso: ‘Around 20’ killed near Soum province gold mine

Around 20 people were killed in an attack near a gold mining site in Madoudji in Burkina Faso's violence-plagued Soum province, security sources told AFP

3 October

Staff Writer With AFP

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France seeks international support for Sahel military coalition

France is asking European partners to send special forces to the Sahel for a coalition to shore up local forces increasingly targeted by jihadist attacks

2 October