Sahel state

The landlocked country has been battered for the past six years by jihadist attacks from neighbouring Mali -- the epicenter of a brutal insurgency that began in 2012 and has also hit Niger.
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A Malian court opened proceedings Tuesday against alleged Islamists who are accused of killing over two dozen people in attacks targeting foreigners in 2015, in a rare terror trial in the Sahel state.
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