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By Abdellah Cheballah - Could Algeria soon send troops from its army, the pillar of the regime, to join peace-keeping missions led by the United Nations or African Union?  President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has urged a constitutional change that would allow deployments...

Amnesty International demanded Thursday that Egypt stop its "harassment and intimidation" of frontline medics for speaking out during the coronavirus pandemic. The rights group documented the cases of eight healthcare workers, including six doctors and two...

Morocco's navy "rescued" nearly 100 migrants from several boats in the Mediterranean, the country's official MAP news agency reported Thursday.  The navy "rescued, in the night of Wednesday to Thursday, 93 sub-Saharan African migrants who were on board makeshift...

Egypt said Saturday that tripartite talks with Ethiopia and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam on the River Nile were deadlocked because of Addis Ababa's "intransigence". The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin...