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In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the Algerian Sahara. The Tuareg are a semi-nomadic people of Berber...

Four ministers in Niger, a former minister and the head of ousted president Mohamed Bazoum's party have been arrested by the junta which seized power on July 26, the party said on Monday. "After the president was detained last week, the putschists went on the attack...

By Boureima Hama: Niger's new junta on Monday accused France of seeking to "intervene militarily" to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum as tension mounted with the former colonial power and neighbours. Bazoum, a western ally whose election just over two years...

In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed on the reddish-brown desert sand. He is barely breathing, and officers try to revive him, gently, with a few drops of water on his lips. The man is...