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Bamako, Feb 14, 2020 - Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight on a village in central Mali, local officials said Friday, in an apparent spate of ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region. The attack occurred in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by...

N'Djamena, Feb 14, 2020 - Amnesty International said the head of a human rights group in Chad was being "secretly detained" for saying on social media that President Idriss Deby Itno had been hospitalised. The authorities confirmed that Baradine Berdei Targuio, head...

N'Djamena, Feb 14, 2020 - Chad will hold parliamentary elections on December 13 after a five-year delay blamed on terrorist activity, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) announced Friday. The current National Assembly was elected in 2011 for four...

Cairo, Feb 14, 2020 - Egypt's health ministry on Friday announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in Africa. The sufferer was not Egyptian, the ministry said in a statement, without specifying the nationality.  "The ministry has taken preventative...