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Sahel: France-Burkina Faso’s diplomatic crisis acceleratesF

By Delphine Touitou: France said on Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador from Burkina Faso "for consultations," a day after agreeing to demands to pull its troops from the country.  Around 400 French special forces are deployed in the deeply troubled Sahel...
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Algeria: Opposition figure Rachid Nekkaz freed from prison after he allegedly vowed to quit politicsF

An Algerian businessman and activist imprisoned for urging a boycott of the country's 2019 presidential election was released Wednesday, a rights group said, after he announced this month he would quit politics. Rachid Nekkaz was released on "humanitarian grounds",...
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Tunisia: President faces public discontent over economyF

Thousands of Tunisians marched Saturday in the capital to protest against President Kais Saied, whom they accuse of seeking to install a new dictatorship amid a worsening economic crisis. Separate rallies by different opposition groups were held in Tunis with a heavy...
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Sahel: Mali avoids escalating regional crisis by pardoning jailed Ivorian soldiersF

Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. "Colonel Assimi Goita... granted a pardon with full remission of sentences...
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