Ghana has announced it is sending 1,000 troops to Bawku in the northeast. An immigration officer was killed and two others wounded in an attack near the border with Burkina Faso.
Sub-Saharan nationals present on Tunisian territory want to leave the country at all costs. Islamic State fighters in the Greater Sahara have taken the Malian town of Tidermene, isolating the town of Menaka in a northeastern region that has come almost entirely under ISGS control.