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Three Countries Exit West African Bloc, Shaking a Fragile Region

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are withdrawing from a 49-year-old regional alliance that has allowed goods and nearly 400 million people to travel freely across a tightly connected region. The three countries are ruled by military leaders friendly to Russia.

Kremlin Critic Is ‘Stable’ in Russian Prison Hospital, Lawyer Says

A lawyer for the jailed Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, said his client is in “stable” health after being moved to a Russian prison hospital last week without explanation and out of contact for six days.

Rwanda Says It Doesn’t Have to Repay U.K. for Scrapped Migration Plan

Rwanda does not have to repay the hundreds of millions of pounds it received from Britain as part of a contentious policy aimed at sending migrants on a one-way flight to the Central African nation.

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