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Senegal: President Macky Sall made the right decision by not seeking third termF

By Adrien Marotte and Soulé Dia: Relief swept Senegal and its supporters on Tuesday after President Macky Sall declared he would not seek a contested third term in office, a move that defused fears of bloodshed. Reactions at home and abroad were almost universally...
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Libya strongman Haftar issues new threat over oil revenueF

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar, who backs the politically-split country's eastern administration, has threatened military action unless oil revenues are divided fairly by the end of August. The country sits on Africa's biggest oil reserves but the wedge...
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Egypt and Turkey seek better ties, appoint envoys after a decade of tensionF

Egypt and Turkey said Tuesday they had appointed ambassadors to each others' countries for the first time in a decade, in the latest sign of warming ties. Cairo and Ankara both issued statements announcing "the upgrading of diplomatic relations between them to the...
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Uproar in the Muslim world over the burning of the Quran outside mosque in StockholmF

Iraqi protesters breached Sweden's embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, angered by a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked condemnation across the Muslim world. A crowd of supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stayed inside the compound for...
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