MOZAMBIQUE: The UN refugee chief raised a new alert today over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique.

The warning follows an upsurge in new attacks by the Islamic State Mozambique group in Cabo Delgado since January that has caused 80,000 new displacements, taking the total number of people forced to abandon their homes and villages and currently displaced in Mozambique to over three quarters of a million, according to the UN.

SAHEL: A joint security force was announced today by the leaders of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to fight worsening extremist violence in their Sahel region countries.