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sahel insecurity

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Quashed coup

Guinea-Bissau: ‘They wanted to kill the president,’ says head of state Umaro Sissoco Embaló On the evening of 1 February, Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló stated that the situation was now under control. However, the precise cou...
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domino effect

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eco friendly

Replacing CFA with Eco ‘challenges the sovereignty’ of Nigerian naira The Francophone countries coming together to replace the colonial currency, the CFA Franc with the Eco, may be “a major step forward and a positive th...