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A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s ...

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At $910 million, it is the most expensive humanitarian crisis in West and Central Africa, ahead of Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso .

Abdoulaye had previously told AFP that the communications minister had lifted the channel and Amadou's reporting suspensions.