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Mopti, Mali, March 14, 2020 (By Amaury Hauchard) - After years of ethnic massacres and unrelenting jihadist attacks, central Mali has been left a harrowed area of deserted villages and displaced people.   An Islamist insurgency erupted in the north of the vast west...

Nouakchott, March 14, 2020 - Mauritania has confirmed its first case of novel coronavirus, the country's health minister said on Friday, adding to the growing number of cases in West Africa. In a televised statement, Health Minister Mohamed Nedhirou Ould Hamed said...

Tripoli, March 13, 2020 - Libya's rival governments on Friday both announced a two-week closure of schools and universities over fears of the novel coronavirus arriving in the country. The education ministries of the Tripoli-based unity government and its...

Cairo, March 13, 2020 - Heavy rains and flooding have killed around 20 people in Egypt, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli said Friday, in what he described as some of the worst weather in several decades.  In a statement posted on a government Facebook page, Madbouli...