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Libya's parliament on Monday began hearings of hopefuls to replace interim prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, a process that could spark new east-west power struggles in the troubled North African nation. Dbeibah's government took power a year ago with a mandate to...

By Hicham Rafih and Fadel Senna, with Ismail Bellaouali in Rabat Moroccans on Monday attended the funeral of Rayan, a five-year-old boy who spent five days trapped down a well,  sparking a vast rescue operation that gripped the world but ended in tragedy.   The boy...

Opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied have condemned his "illegal" decision to dissolve the country's top judicial watchdog, a move experts warned Monday is part of a slide towards autocracy. Tunisia had been lauded as a rare democratic success story following...

Diplomats in Burkina Faso on Friday said they would help the junta that seized power last month restore security to the jihadist-wracked country, the Chinese ambassador announced on their behalf. The junta's leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has in the past week been...