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Niger President Mohamed Bazoum on Monday urged his country's allies to step up the fight against arms trafficking from Libya, which he said is fuelling the Sahel's jihadist insurgency. "The partners' biggest failure has been their weak involvement in the fight against...

Libya's rival central banks said on Monday they had reached a reunification deal, seven years after they divided as conflict tore the country apart. The original bank, which manages the North African state's vast oil revenues, had been severed in 2014 when a complex...

Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pledged $100 million in aid to the Palestinians, as Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas visited Algiers on Monday. Tebboune said at a joint press conference that the funding was "in keeping with Algeria's revolutionary history and...

Seven former rebels were killed in northern Mali overnight, a spokesman of the group, the Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA), said Monday. The alliance made up mainly of separatist Tuaregs and nationalist Arabs signed an accord with the national government in...