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Mali's ruling junta has heightened its diplomatic and verbal joust with Ivory Coast over 46 detained Ivorian soldiers, warning other West African states to stay out of the spat. In a statement read on state television on Thursday evening, interim Prime Minister...

A leading Chadian rebel flew home on Friday to join talks on the country's political future, after spending nearly two years in jail in Egypt, an AFP reporter saw. Tom Erdimi, 67, arrived at N'Djamena airport aboard an EgyptAir flight and was greeted by his twin...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied issued a decree Friday that punishes the dissemination of "fake news" with up to five years in prison, rising to 10 when such crimes are deemed to target top officials. The decree, published in the Official Journal, defines the offence...

A well-known Malian commander has urged civilians to flee part of a northern region recently attacked by Islamic State jihadists, in a rare admission of the security problems facing locals. "There are no armed forces or any entity to guarantee the security of the...