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Mauritania has made progress in battling slavery but still has its work cut out to abolish the practice, the UN envoy on the issue said Friday. Slavery has been officially banned since 1981 and classified as a crime  against humanity in the Sahel country, but...

The Tunisian navy said Saturday it rescued 81 migrants, one of them a woman, who had set out for Europe from Libya on a barely seaworthy vessel. The boat, which had been damaged, was boarded around six kilometres (four miles) off Tunisia's northeastern coast, the navy...

Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday against France in the Chadian capital, accusing the former colonial power of supporting the country's military junta. Demonstrators in N'Djamena burned at least two French flags and vandalised several petrol stations belonging...

A crowd estimated at more than 2,000, lower than expected, took part Sunday in the first demonstration of a new alliance to oppose a power grab by President Kais Saied. "We shall overcome," and "We are united, not divided," read banners of the National Salvation Front...