Senegal’s president calls for dialogue with Sahel military juntas

Senegalese President and West Africa’s ECOWAS “facilitator” Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday called for dialogue and peaceful reconciliation with three countries that recently split from the bloc. The military leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso broke away from the Economic Community of West African States earlier this year and formed a confederation of their…

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Man bites snake to death

If you, a man, were bitten by a snake as you slept, what would your first reaction be? To scream? Dive out of bed? Run? Santosh Lohar had a different reaction and bit the snake to death in retaliation. The 35-year-old from Panduka, Kharkhand in India, had been sleeping when the reptile attacked him. This…

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