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Tunisia: Protest in Tunis over president’s “power grab” as economy worsensF

Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power grab and the economic crisis in the North African country. "Poverty has increased", and "Famine is at our doorsteps", they chanted as at least 2,000...

Sahel: Peace talks between Chad regime and rebels get off to a bad startF

Chad's military government and dozens of opposition groups started peace talks on Sunday in Qatar as a first step towards ending a rebellion and holding elections. But after opening speeches, in which the country's prime minister and the head of the African Union...

Tunisia: President appoints interim judicial authority after sacking independent councilF

Tunisia's President Kais Saied inaugurated a "temporary" council of judges on Monday, which replaces an independent watchdog that he abolished weeks ago as he seized sweeping powers over the judiciary. Saied had last month scrapped the High Judicial Council (CSM),...

Libya: Political impasse as rival authority in east insists on PM Dbeibah departureF

War-torn Libya's parliament rejects any "interference" in its work, its speaker told the UN envoy on Monday after she had offered to mediate in a push for elections. Stephanie Williams, UN chief Antonio Guterres's special adviser on Libya, had on Friday offered to...

Sahel: Mali avoids escalating regional crisis by pardoning jailed Ivorian soldiersF

Jan 6, 2023

Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row,...

Egypt starts the year with a disastrous economic environment and social tensionF

Egypt starts the year with a disastrous economic environment and social tensionF

Jan 6, 2023

By Mona Salem and Sarah Benhaida: Public anger has been growing for months in Egypt over a severe dollar crunch and...

Sahel: Regime in Chad said it thwarted a coupF

Jan 6, 2023

The government in Chad said Thursday that it had foiled an "attempted destabilisation" plot by army officers and a...

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