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The Azawad Liberation Front announced a controlled withdrawal from Kidal on October 6 after strikes it says began around October 3. Mali announced large-scale operations; control of the town is unclear and no casualty toll has been reported.
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After an activist group set a June 30 deadline for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa, over 160,000 foreign nationals fled. The returnees now face ruined homes, no work, and the same broken economy that drove them out in the first place.
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Federal forces and their allies have retaken Mekelle's Alula Aba Nega Airport after a week of intense fighting, the worst escalation since the 2020-2022 war. The 2022 Pretoria peace deal lies in ruins; who controls the city itself remains unclear.
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Algiers denounced Niger's 2023 coup as illegitimate. Now it lands fighter jets on the junta's airbase — without the parliamentary approval its own constitution requires. Algeria's Niger adventure is not solidarity; it is power theatre, staged for Moscow's cameras.
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Algeria's President Tebboune confirmed on October 3 that Algiers sent four Su-30 fighter jets to Niger in late August after mutineers attacked a military base, the state broadcaster and the presidential palace in Niamey — breaking with its non-intervention doctrine.
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In an exclusive Al Jazeera interview, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israel is planning a naval base at Berbera — and that Somalia will not accept an Israeli presence 'under any circumstances'.
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