Senegal’s Attorney-General Serigne Bassirou Guèye has began a probe into one of the biggest drug scandals ever to rock the country’s police force.
As a first step, he ordered on Wednesday the arrest and detention of a Nigerian believed to be behind the whole scandal.
The issue came to a head after a top Senegalese police was accused of having connections with the detained Nigerian.
Malian troops deployed in the northern town of Kidal on Friday after attacks by light-skinned Tuareg separatists on black residents killed at least one, a week before elections meant to unify the fractured nation.
Nigeria reportedly plans to withdraw some 850 of its 1,200 soldiers from Mali following the elections there.
At least two persons including an African Union soldier (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port of Kismayo were killed in a roadside explosion Wednesday.
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Nigerian governor Rotimi Amaechi and four of his northern counterparts have been pelted with stones by opponents in his home state.
Their convoy was attacked as it left the airport of Port Harcourt, the capital of his oil-rich Rivers state.
The northern governors [of Niger, Kano, Jigawa, and Adamawa] were visiting to show their support for Mr Amaechi.
He was suspended from the ruling party for what analysts see as his opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan.
What else is happening?
Sahel Blog 
Well, it could be good news in Senegal in that there was an arrest or it could just be him losing as part of a power struggle.
Any news on what happened to the Niger prisoners who escaped in early June, particularly the Malian accused of murdering the American?
Good question. I haven’t seen anything new on that.