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• Malian National pleads guilty to killing US Military official in Niger Carjacking

  The Malian national who escaped twice is expected to spend years in jail after professing that he's guilty of the crime happened in 2000.

• Mali says arrests two suspects linked to Bamako hotel attack

  Mali authorities arrested two people on Thursday suspected of links to an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital that killed 20 people, the security ministry said.

• U.S. military trains African armies ahead of Boko Haram campaign

  Under the glare of the Saharan sun, a U.S. special forces trainer corrects the aim of a Chadian soldier as he takes cover behind a Toyota pick-up and fires at a target with his AK47 -- a drill that could soon save his life.

• Mali government declares country Ebola-free

  Mali's health minister declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus.

• Mali steps up border controls after Ebola case arrives from Guinea

  Mali said it was reinforcing health controls at border posts but has no plans to close its frontiers after a man with Ebola arrived from Guinea and infected others including a nurse who has died of the virus.

• Mauritania closes border with Mali over Ebola fears

  Mauritania has closed its border with Mali to prevent the spread of Ebola, officials said on Saturday, highlighting fears of further contagion in West Africa after a girl from Guinea died of the disease in Mali this week.

• French forces detain suspects in Mali U.N. attack

  French forces have detained three men and seized a large cache of arms which they believe were linked to a recent rocket attack on a U.N. base in northern Mali in which a Senegalese peacekeeper was killed, the French military said on Sunday.

• Chad accuses U.N. of neglecting its peacekeepers in Mali

  Chad's government accused the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Mali on Friday of failing to relieve its contingent in the country's volatile north and neglecting to support it, a day after five Chadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb.

• Family of 7 Kidnapped: French Nationals Abducted in Cameroon, Most Likely by Nigerian Terrorists, Boko Haram

  A French family of seven - including four children- was kidnapped on Tuesday in northern Cameroon, and officials suggest the involvement of one of Nigeria's Islamic terrorist sects, Boko Haram.