Senegalese people are called to the polls on Sunday to elect their new president in the most open election ever held in the country. Algeria announced on Thursday that the presidential vote would take place on September 7, three months before the date initially planned.
23 Nigerien soldiers died in "an ambush" set by "terrorists" during a "combing operation" by the army in the west, near Mali and Burkina Faso. New wave of kidnappings in Nigeria, where more than a hundred people were kidnapped in the northwest.