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Canada suffers third straight loss, exits FIFA men’s U-17 World Cup winless
Canada Soccer has amended a statement it issued Friday and removed it from Twitter at the request of the Canadian Soccer Players' Association (CSPA), which represents the players on the Canadian women's national team. A Canada soccer logo is seen in Vancouver on March 24, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Russian forces play key role in capture of rebel stronghold in Mali
Protesters holds a banner reading "Thank you Wagner", the name of the Russian private security firm present in Mali, during a demonstration organised by the pan-Africanst platform Yerewolo to celebrate France's announcement to withdraw French troops from Mali, in Bamako, on February 19, 2022. - The French president announced on Febraury 16 the withdrawal of troops from Mali after a breakdown in relations with the nation's ruling military junta. France first intervened in Mali in 2013 to combat a jihadist insurgency that emerged one year prior. The French pull-out after nearly a decade is also set to see the smaller European Takuba group of special forces, created in 2020, leave Mali. (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES / AFP) (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canada falls 3-0 to Uzbekistan at FIFA men’s U-17 World Cup in Indonesia
Canada's under-17 men's team will play South American champion Brazil in a pair of friendlies as part of its preparation for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia later this year, A Soccer Canada logo is displayed on the sideline at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn
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Niger says 29 soldiers killed in attack, rejects Algerian mediation
(FILES) Soldiers stand guard as supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) protest ouside the Niger and French airbase to demand the departure of the French army from Niger, in Niamey on September 16, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron on September 24, 2023, announced that France would withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by the French military contingent in the coming months, a move welcomed by Niger's military leaders as a "step towards sovereignty". (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Four years after helicopter mission, Canada prepares a final pullout from Mali
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 01, 2018 a Canadian United Nations soldier prepares to move out of a base in Gao on August 1, 2018, to take part in an operation during the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). - Canadian personnel participating in the UN peacekeeping force in Mali will remain in place until the end of August, a month longer than planned, to ensure a smooth transition, the government said June 14, 2019. (Photo by SEYLLOU / AFP)SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images
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Mali military camp attacked day after 49 civilians, 15 soldiers killed in assaults
A UN flag and Mali flag fly over a memorial on the MINUSMA Main Operations Base in Bamako, Mali, Africa on Saturday, June 23, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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At least 49 civilians, 15 soldiers killed in northeast Mali attacks
A UN flag and Mali flag fly on the MINUSMA Main Operations Base in Bamako, Mali, Africa on Saturday, June 23, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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The coup in Niger is a boon for Africa’s jihadist militias
Robert Rotberg
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Mutinous soldiers in Niger sever French military ties while ‘hostage’ president pleads for U.S. help
FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of members of the regional ECOWAS force are seen at the Denton Bridge check point in Banjul, Gambia January 22, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon/File Photo
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West African leaders make plan for military intervention in Niger
Pro-junta demonstrators gathered outside the French embassy, try to set it on fire before being dispersed by Nigerian security forces in Niamey, the capital city of Niger July 30, 2023. REUTERS/Souleymane Ag Anara
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Niger junta suspends French broadcasts as supporters protest sanctions
Anti-sanctions protestors gather in support of the putschist soldiers in the capital Niamey, Niger August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Balima Boureima NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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France’s ‘Africa problem’ is Canada’s, too
Konrad Yakabuski
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Niger coup casts doubt on Canada’s African strategy of spending millions on military training, development
Special forces from Niger, mentored by a Canadian special operations officer near Jacqueville in Ivory Coast, are preparing for terrorist attacks of the kind that have escalated across West Africa in the past several years, especially in the Sahel region but also in coastal countries such as Ivory Coast, Benin and Togo. CHEICK SYLLA/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Niger junta arrests senior politicians after coup; IMF monitors events
Protesters gather in front of the French Embassy in Niamey during a demonstration that followed a rally in support of Niger's junta in Niamey on July 30, 2023. Niger's junta on Sunday said ECOWAS could stage an imminent military intervention in the capital Niamey as the regional body meets for an "extraordinary summit" on the coup-hit country, with sanctions a possibility. The country's elected president Mohamed Bazoum has been held by the military for four days, and General Abdourahamane Tiani, the chief of the powerful presidential guard, has declared himself leader. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canada dominates Brazil to advance to FIBA U19 women’s World Cup quarters
Toby Fournier of Canada handles the ball against Spain July 9, 2022 in Debrecen, Hungary at the FIBA U17 Women's Basketball World Cup. The 17-year-old Toronto native committed to Duke University on Wednesday. After celebrating with family over dinner that night, ESPN’s 13th-ranked 2024 basketball prospect is now in Edmonton for senior women’s national team camp, with eyes on competing for Canada at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-FIBA/Canada Basketball **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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New Mali mining law could boost state, local interest in projects to 35%
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UN votes to immediately end peacekeeping operation in Mali after demand from military junta
FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. Malian voters cast ballots on a new draft constitution Sunday, June 18, 2023, in a referendum that the country's coup leader says will pave the way toward holding new elections in 2024, but that critics have called a delaying tactic. In a message broadcast on state television on the eve of the vote, Col. Assimi Goita told Malians that the proposed draft constitution “provides for a better-organized executive power, while maintaining the necessary balance with the legislative power.”. (AP Photo, File)
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U.S. says Russia’s Wagner Group seeking to transit military equipment through Mali
FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out of PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Russak
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Western countries pile pressure on Mali over Wagner Group role
FILE -An unidentified representative of the junta waves from a military vehicle as Malians supporting the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita gathers to celebrate in the capital Bamako, Mali., on Aug. 21, 2020. The United States warned Mali’s military government Wednesday, April 12, 2023, that it would be “irresponsible” for the United Nations to continue deploying its more than 15,000 peacekeepers unless the western African nation ends restrictions including on operating reconnaissance drones and carries out political commitments toward peace and elections in March 2024. (AP Photo/File)
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As jihadist attacks intensify in West Africa, troops train with Canadian soldiers
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Russia targets Ivory Coast to expand military influence in Africa
Demonstrators carry banners in Bangui, on March 22, 2023 during a march in support of Russia and China's presence in the Central African Republic. - Central African Republic authorities have opened an investigation into the deaths of nine Chinese nationals killed in an attack on a gold mine in the centre of the country on March 19, 2023. Taking advantage of the vacuum created by the departure of the bulk of French troops, Moscow sent "military instructors" to the country in 2018, then hundreds of Wagner paramilitaries in 2020 at the request of Bangui, faced with a threatening rebellion. (Photo by Barbara DEBOUT / AFP) (Photo by BARBARA DEBOUT/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. aid worker and French journalist freed in West Africa
FILE - Els Woodke speaks about the 2016 kidnapping of her husband Jeffrey Woodke, photo on video monitor, in West Africa, during a news conference in Washington, Nov. 17, 2021. The Biden administration says the American aid worker who was kidnapped in Niger six years ago has been released from custody. Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from his home in Abalak, Niger, in October 2016 by men who ambushed and killed his guards and forced him at gunpoint into their truck, where he was driven north toward Mali’s border. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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France slashes its African military presence, but Africans remain skeptical
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to ouline France's revamped strategy for Africa ahead of his visit in Central Africa, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on February 27, 2023. Stefano Rellandini/Pool via REUTERS
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Gunmen kill at least 12 civilians in central Mali village
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 14, 2020 A United Nation armoured vehicle with the MINUSMA, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali, patrols in the desert outside Menaka during the congress of the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA) a Tuareg political and armed movement in the Azawad Region in Mali. - Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five were seriously injured on February 21, 2023 when their convoy struck a roadside bomb in central Mali, the UN mission said. (Photo by Souleymane Ag Anara / AFP) (Photo by SOULEYMANE AG ANARA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mali expels U.N. mission’s human rights chief
FILE PHOTO: A U.N. vehicle patrols the streets before the polls open for the presidential election in Bamako, Mali July, 29 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo
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UN experts seek probe into possible war crimes by Mali, Russia’s Wagner
FILE - This undated photograph handed out by French military shows Russian mercenaries boarding a helicopter in northern Mali. Russia's Wagner Group, a private military company led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a rogue millionaire with longtime links to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, has played a key role in the fighting in Ukraine and also deployed its personnel to Syria, Central African Republic, Libya and Mali. (French Army via AP, File)
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Over 60 women, children freed in Burkina Faso after kidnapping
FILE PHOTO: A woman pushes a barrel filled with water on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso January 30, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
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What is the Wagner Group, the mercenary organization working for Russia in Ukraine?
FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out of PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Russak
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Mali leader pardons Ivorian soldiers, suspends 46 prison sentences
FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. Mali's military junta leader on Friday Jan. 6, 2023 pardoned 49 soldiers from neighboring Ivory Coast who were convicted of undermining Mali's state security and conspiracy against the government. (AP Photo, File)
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Two peacekeepers killed, four wounded in Mali attack, UN says
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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Mauritanian indicted in three deadly 2015 terror attacks in Mali
FILE - Soldiers stand guard in front of the Radisson Blu hotel prior to the visit of Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Bamako, Mali, Nov. 21, 2015. Fawaz Ould Ahmed Ould Ahemeid, a Mauritanian national, suspected of planning and coordinating three lethal attacks in 2015 on westerners in Mali, was arraigned in a New York federal court on Saturday Dec. 10, 2022, a day after being transferred to U.S. custody in Mali. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)
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Canada keeping small peacekeeping unit in Mali as many others pull out
A Canadian Armed Forces member turns away from a Chinook helicopter as it lands during a demonstration at the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Gao, Mali, Saturday December 22, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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In its latest rivalry with Russia, the U.S. wins a West African promise
Members of the newly appointed Burkina Faso government, including Prime Minister Apollinaire Kyelem de Tembela (4L front line), pose for a family photo following the first minister's council after cabinet appointments in Ouagadougou, on October 26, 2022. - Burkina Faso's new government on October 26, 2022, has declared that its top priority would be to secure the nation's territory, after the latest coup to rock the jihadist-torn Sahel state. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Bridget Carleton scores 27 points as Canadian women’s basketball team downs Mali at FIBA World Cup
Canada's Bridget Carleton, right, drives past Mali's Maimouna Haidara during a game at the FIBA World Cup, in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 27.