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A passenger boat on the Niger River in northern Mali was attacked on Thursday by suspected jihadists, the Malian army said on social media. "At around 11:00 am (1100 GMT), armed terrorist groups... attacked a Comanav boat" in the Gourma-Rharous area, it said,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called Tuesday for measures to slow the birthrate in the Arab world's most populous country, citing China's one-child policy as an example. "We need 400,000 births per year," said the leader of the country of 105 million...

Two leaders of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha have been arrested, the party said Wednesday, in the latest move against it by President Kais Saied's government. Ennahda was the largest party in parliament until Saied dissolved the legislature in...

An army nurse at a French military base in northern Chad shot dead a Chadian soldier who had attacked him, triggering protests by local people, the region's governor told AFP on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday in the base of Faya-Largeau, where troops are...