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Africa

Agnes' Tirop's sisters, Eve Tirop, 21, (from left) Damaris Tirop, 19, and Agnes' best friend, Monica Maiyo, 23, go for their dawn training run on June 24  in Iten, Kenya.
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The Iten killings: deaths of elite athletes cast spotlight on domestic violence
The thwarted coup attempt comes nearly a year after Burkina Faso's junta leader Ibrahim Traore (center) seized power in the West African nation.
Vincent Bado/Reuters
Four officers arrested in Burkina Faso after thwarted coup attempt, prosecutor says
Sylvain Itte, the French ambassador to Niger, has returned to Paris.
JUDITH LITVINE
French ambassador to Niger returns to Paris amid escalating tensions
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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US suspends aid programs for Gabon after coup
Mali's junta leader Assimi Goita (center) pictured with other military leaders on August 22, 2020.
Annie Risemberg/AFP/Getty Images
Mali junta expects delay to February elections
Zoleka Mandela
Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter dies aged 43
Relations between Burkina Faso and its former colonizer France have soured since frustrations over worsening insecurity spurred two military takeovers last year.
Vincent Bado/Reuters