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Egypt keeps social media influencers in prison, along with 60,000 political prisonersF

Egypt has extended the pre-trial detention of three TikTok comedians after their online sketch about a prison visit had gone viral, a lawyer representing them told AFP on Monday. Mohamed Hossam al-Din, Basma Hegazy and Ahmed Tarek were arrested last month after...
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Sahel: Russia looks to deepen influence in the Sahel with foreign minister’s visit to MaliF

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrives in Mali late Monday for talks with its junta leaders seeking Moscow's help in battling an Islamist insurgency that remains entrenched despite years of fighting. The visit of less than 24 hours will be Lavrov's third trip...
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Sahel: Three children die in school fire in Niger’s Zinder regionF

Three children died and 11 were injured, two of them seriously, when a school made of straw and wood caught fire in central Niger on Monday, local officials said. The fire broke out in a classroom in a school in Zinder and spread swiftly, fanned by the harmattan...
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Sahel: Mali expels head of the human rights division of UN’s MINUSMA missionF

UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday slammed Mali's expulsion of the top rights representative in the troubled West African country, saying the work there was "more crucial than ever." Mali's ruling junta said Sunday that it was expelling the head of the human...
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