The United Nations has voted to end its decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali... The UN Security Council's decision comes two weeks after Mali's military leadership accused the 13-thousand strong Minusma force of failing to tackle a jihadist insurgency. In August last year, France withdrew its troops from Mali... that reopened a security vaccum which allowed Russia's mercenary group Wagner to step in...
In the arid lands of Cameroons Far North Region, a Region already having to contend with incursions by the jihadist group Boko haram, drinking water is a rare commodity. To solve this problem, the Cameroon Red Cross has set up a solar pumping system ,rehabilitated a drinking water production station and built standpipes in Makary district of the Logone and Chari division on the borders with Chad.