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Kenya's President William Ruto announces the deployment of troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint regional operation against a rebel offensive. "Its security is an obligation that we commit our best effort to achieve" he says. SOUNDBITE
"The United States does not have a biological weapons program. There are no Ukrainian biological weapons laboratories supported by the United States," US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells the Security Council, strongly rejecting Russia's claim of such activity. SOUNDBITE
Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, says after a meeting of European foreign ministers that the EU is to halt all training missions in Mali but will keep a presence in the Sahel. "We are halting the training missions" but "will continue to provide advice", the bloc's top diplomat says. SOUNDBITE
French officers hand over the keys to a military base in the Malian city of Timbuktu, after a nearly nine-year deployment. The French flag was lowered and the Malian flag raised in its place on the base, where a force of about 150 soldiers have remained after Paris began withdrawing troops in 2013. IMAGES
A cellphone video shows a Ugandan military tank and vehicles transporting troops in the Congolese border town of Nobili. Ugandan troops deploymed in the eastern DR Congo on Tuesday in an operation against the notorious ADF rebel group launched in cooperation with Kinshasa. IMAGES
Thousands of people demonstrate in Mali's capital backing the nation's military rulers and protesting perceived foreign meddling in the Sahel state. IMAGES
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