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Sahel: Niger’s Tahoua region targeted by terror groups, dozens killed in fresh raidsF

Scores of people have died in the deadliest suspected jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger, the government said Monday, underscoring the huge security challenge facing new President Mohamed Bazoum. Government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said 137 people had died in...

Libya: Women making modest progress in politics but glass ceiling still strongF

By Hamza Mekouar and Jihad Dorgham: Libya's new government includes five women, with two in key portfolios -- a first for the country nonetheless criticised by activists as insufficient and as not living up to a UN commitment. Libya descended into conflict after...

Libya: Authorities find bodies of people in Benghazi likely killed execution styleF

The bodies of 11 people bearing gunshot wounds were discovered on Thursday in eastern Libya's Benghazi, said a security source, suggesting they had been "executed". "Security forces were alerted on Thursday of the presence of 11 unidentified bodies at the southern...

Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”F

Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely amount to "war crimes", Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. A decade-old jihadist insurgency in North Sinai province escalated in...

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