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At least 18 people died when an artisanal goldmine collapsed in southern Niger near the border with Nigeria, the local mayor said on Monday.  "The provisional death toll is 18 people, whom we buried this morning," Adamou Gueraou, mayor of Dan-Issa district, told AFP...

Libyan PM says council has no authority to suspend ministers Libya's Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah on Sunday came to the defence of his foreign minister, Najla al-Mangoush, a day after the country's presidential council said it had suspended her. Dbeibah's office...

Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Saturday he would not make the "first move" towards easing tensions with former colonial power France after critical comments from Paris about his country. The diplomatic spat has been fuelled by a visa row and media...

At least two Tunisian oil workers were killed and two went missing when cables holding a floating reservoir snapped plunging them into the sea off western Libya, officials said Saturday.  The Tunisian consulate in Libya, on its Facebook page, said two bodies were...