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Tripoli, Oct 15, 2019 - Parked in a hangar in downtown Tripoli, some 35 buses awaited this week's launch of a new urban public transport scheme -- the first in the Libyan capital in three decades. Imported from China, the brand new vehicles will make their first trips...

Tripoli, Oct 14, 2019 - At least three children were killed and eight civilians wounded Monday in an air strike on a residential neighbourhood near the Libyan capital, the health ministry said. Spokesman Lamine al-Hachemi said another child was seriously wounded and...

Tunis, Oct 14, 2019  - Conservative political outsider Kais Saied has won Tunisia's presidential election by a landslide taking 72.71 percent of the votes, the North African country's electoral commission said Monday. Saied garnered 2.7 million votes against one...

Ketama, Morocco, Oct 10, 2019 - Morocco's rugged Rif Mountains have long been renowned for their cannabis but traditional varieties are being smoked out by foreign hybrids offering higher yields and greater potency. The local strain of marijuana, known as Beldiya, is...