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Mali's junta announced on Monday a ban on the activities of NGOs funded or supported by France, including humanitarian groups, amid a worsening row between Paris and Bamako. FRANCE 24's Senior Reporter Cyril Payen tells us more.
Mali's junta announced on Monday a ban on the activities of NGOs funded or supported by France, including humanitarian groups, amid a worsening row between Paris and Bamako. The West African nation's interim Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga justified the move in a statement on social media, calling it a response to France's recent halt to development aid for Mali. FRANCE 24's Cyril Payen tells us more.
France and military allies said on Thursday they would leave Mali after almost a decade based there fighting Islamist insurgents around West Africa. Paris wants its allies to support countries in the Gulf of Guinea, notably Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin and Ghana, where there are concerns militancy is spreading due to porous borders. FRANCE 24's Nathan Quao reports from Accra, Ghana.
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