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The IMF has received a request for aid from the new government in Tunisia and discussions over a new loan program have already started, the Washington-based crisis lender said Thursday. The North African country is facing a serious economic crisis that is discouraging...

West African bloc ECOWAS issued sanctions against members of Mali's transitional government, including its prime minister, but not the colonel who led last year's coup, according to a document from the bloc obtained by AFP.  The sanctions issued by the Economic...

Libya's parliament chief, Aguila Saleh to run for presidency The speaker of Libya's eastern-based parliament, Aguila Saleh, said Wednesday he would run in next month's presidential election, after a military strongman and the son of Libya's former dictator made...

EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to draw up more sanctions on shadowy Russian mercenary group Wagner over its involvement in a string of hotspots, the bloc's foreign policy chief said. The private military outfit, which Western capitals see as closely linked to the...