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The Boko Haram group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys' school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina, media reported on Tuesday. More than 330 students are missing from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen attacked their school on Friday night, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forests. The Daily Nigerian said on Tuesday that it had received an audio message from Boko Haram leader…

Guinea's opposition candidate CellouDaleinDiallosaid on Monday had received the primary spherical of presidential elections on October 18, however his declare was shortly disputed by the election fee and the federal government, setting the stage for a resistance. "Regardless of the intense irregularities that mar the graceful…

Guinea's opposition chief Cellou Dalein Diallo declared on Monday with out ready for official outcomes that he had received a presidential election in opposition to incumbent Alpha Conde, who's searching for a controversial third time period. At a press convention within the capital Conakry a day after the extremely…

Four days after the release of Sophie Pétronin, Soumaila Cissé and the two Italian hostages, the gray areas are still numerous. France assures it in any case: its role in this affair was only secondary. "The operation was carried out by the Malians, the terms of the negotiations were not carried out by France". This is the message conveyed by the Elysée while the conditions for the release of Sophie Pétronin raise questions. If the two countries' external services have worked together, it is Bamako who has kept control…