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Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state is in Africa for an 11 day tour. It follows last month’s visit to Ghana by Barack Obama, the US president.
The State Department says the trip is meant to highlight Africa as a priority for the US, but there may be more than just political ties at stake.
How will Washington shape its Africa policy? And how would it counter the growing influence China has throughout the continent.
Leaders from Europe, Africa and the Middle East will meet in Paris this weekend to launch the Mediterranean Union.
The new body aims to strengthen ties between Europe and its southern neighbours.
Many of those migrating to North Africa and Europe come from West and Central Africa.
Their pursuit of a better life takes them on a dangerous journey north across the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.
They leave their home countries and travel to transit countries such as Mauritania, Mali and Niger.
There, they begin their journey across desert borders to North Africa and then on to Europe.
Al Jazeera’s Casey Kauffman traveled to the northeast of Mali and met up with a group of migrants on the first leg of their journey across the Sahara.
Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, is being tried at the International Criminial Court at the Hague for war crimes during the brutal 1991-2001 civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege went to Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, where she found that many people feel disconnected from the proceedings in the Netherlands.
