He assured his wife he would “get in and get out.”

A month and a half later, Tigran Gambaryan is being held at Kuje prison in the Nigerian capital.

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One night at 3 a.m. she made a little bundle of food, looked at the faces of her sleeping daughters and said a short prayer for their protection. She ducked out of their home. Then she walked for days through the bush.
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Senegal’s new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, took the oath of office on Tuesday. At 44, he is Africa’s youngest elected president. nyti.ms/3vByiCv

How did Bassirou Diomaye Faye, age 44, go from obscurity to a resounding win in Senegal’s presidential election? At the family homestead, one relative explained, “This family is not new to ruling.”
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The entire military approach in the Sahel needs to be reformed, said El Hadj Djitteye, director of the Timbuktu Center for Strategic Studies on the Sahel, a Mali-based think tank.
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“They are using girls’ bodies as a political battlefield” – Fatou Baldeh MBE

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Three Sahel nations withdraw from ECOWAS, citing injustice and foreign influence. Ruth Maclean
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'Narratively driven and cinematic.. giving readers rich, fleshed out characters, vivid scenes and an urgent environmental and socioeconomic dilemma in which there are no easy answers.'

As the world gets older, Africa has the youngest, fastest growing population. A look at how the looming 'youthquake' is bringing seismic change, reshaping the continent and its place in the world.
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“Senegal exceeds my person, and is full of leaders capable of taking the country to the next level.”

Macky Sall finally answers the question: Will he run for president again?

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'Didn't I tell you we were going to die? Didn't I tell you we were already dead?'

The complete story of hundreds of preventable deaths in the Mediterranean.

Major The New York Times team effort across countries & teams.

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“They expected me to be silent. To be a good guy and behave.”

Abdi Latif Dahir gets the scoop – first post-prison interview with Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired Hotel Rwanda, but whom Rwanda locked up.

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“Like those diamonds, we are processed now.”

Many in Botswana feel they now have the know-how to part ways with De Beers.

(But they did just reach a deal to keep working together)
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“What happens if our children grow up in a country where the police shoot at their own people with real bullets?” asked Saly Sarr. “They’ll just create more insurgents.”

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“Divorce can even increase women’s value.”

I went to Ouadane in the Mauritanian desert for a divorce party with @LauraBoushnak and learned so much from the women I met there

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An illuminating story about the custodians of Congo's peatlands by Ruth Maclean Caleb Kabanda and Nanna Heitmann has been awarded first prize for Excellence in Environmental Journalism in this year’s Fetisov Journalism Awards. nytco.com/press/environm…