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Algeria: While pro-democracy Hirak movement represents no risk to regime, Algeria continues to hold people in prisonsF

A United Nations expert on Tuesday urged Algeria to pardon people convicted or detained over their involvement in the pro-democracy protests of 2019-20 and to ease restrictions on gatherings. The Hirak protests broke out in February 2019, forcing longtime president...
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Algeria and Morocco on opposite sides of the Western Sahara conflict, face off at UNF

Moroccan and Algerian representatives to the United Nations sparred over the fate of Western Sahara on Tuesday, with Algiers calling for the revival of a long-stalled referendum on the fate of the former Spanish colony. "We Algerians have chosen the camp of justice,...
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Egypt: Sisi wants to be reelected ASAP, before switch to flexible exchange rate that could exacerbate social tensionsF

Egypt will hold a presidential vote on December 10-12, the election authority said Monday, with the winner to be announced by December 18. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former army chief, has ruled for nearly a decade in the Arab world's most populous country,...
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Sahel: Mali warns ECOWAS against military action in NigerF

Mali "will not stand idly by" if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako's top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after both countries' juntas joined a mutual defense pact. Rebel elite soldiers overthrew Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum...
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