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The head of Chad's ruling junta Friday flew off to Qatar to seal a possible peace deal with rebels, a key step in plans to restore civilian rule, the presidency's website said. General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno's plane took off from N'Djamena airport at around 1230...

Suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso have killed four soldiers and nine civilian auxiliaries, the army said on Friday.  The attack on Thursday by "an armed terrorist group" in Bourzanga district also wounded 10 others, military headquarters said in a...

Morocco called Tuesday for a return to regional roundtable talks on a peace deal over the Western Sahara, a format rejected by neighbouring Algeria which says it masks the nature of the conflict. Morocco's top diplomat Nasser Bourita made the comments in a statement...

Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach announced Thursday it had concluded a three-year deal with French group Engie on the price of gas it delivers through an undersea pipeline. Sonatrach and Engie reached "agreement in Algiers regarding the gas contract through the...