Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Mali’s junta-led government retaliates against insurgents, U.S. and Nigerian forces kill a major Islamic State figure, and the World Health Organization sounds the alarm about an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mali’s Military Retaliates A few weeks after coordinated rebel attacks rocked Mali, threatening the junta government’s grip on power in the country’s north and marking a new phase of its security crisis, the Malian military is retaliating with drone strikes, some of which have killed civilians. Mali launched air strikes for several days late last…
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