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The European Parliament on Thursday decried Tunisian President Kais Saied's "authoritarian drift" and called for the immediate release of a detained prominent journalist. Saied sacked the government and froze parliament in a 2021 power grab before imposing sweeping...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced Thursday the "abandon" of thousands of migrants expelled by Algeria into northern Niger and called on the West African bloc ECOWAS to intervene. Many of those expelled were struggling to find shelter in a region where...

Moroccan police on Wednesday arrested three suspected members of the Islamic State group over the killing of an officer whose charred body was found this month, the authorities said. The two main suspects were detained following "security operations" in Casablanca and...

Jihadist-hit Niger last week killed about 30 members of the Boko Haram group and detained 960 followers, most of them women and children, who had fled neighbouring Nigeria, official sources said. State TV channel Tele Sahel said late Tuesday that on March 7 aerial...