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Children practice security drills at school in the village of Dori, Burkina Faso, Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020. Children returning to school in Burkina Faso's volatile Sahel region, have to practice safety drills to prepare for potential jihadist attacks that have ravaged the West African nation, killing more than 2,000 people this year. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
Students in Burkina Faso fear extremists more than COVID-19

By Sam Mednick Nov. 27, 2020 04:59 AM EST

In this UNTV image, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe, speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at UN headquarters. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from heads-of-state, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic. (UNTV via AP)
At UN, Africa urges fiscal help against virus 'apocalypse'

By Cara Anna Sep. 24, 2020 12:04 PM EDT

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press upon arrival at Nouakchott Oumtounsy International Airport Tuesday June 30, 2020, in Nouakchott, to attend a G5 Sahel summit. Leaders from the five countries of West Africa's Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Tuesday to discuss military operations against Islamic extremists in the region, as jihadist attacks mount. The five African countries, known as the G5, have formed a joint military force that is working with France, which has thousands of troops to battle the extremists in the Sahel, the region south of the Sahara Desert. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
French, Spanish and African leaders meet to combat extremism

By Carley Petesch And Sylvie Corbet Jun. 30, 2020 09:32 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, vehicles are seen leaving the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore where former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe had received medical treatment in the years before his death. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (AP Photo/Danial Hakim, File)
African elite who once sought treatment abroad are grounded

By Cara Anna Apr. 04, 2020 02:59 AM EDT