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A Tunisian city held a general strike on Wednesday, after a protester died of tear gas inhalation during angry demonstrations over the reopening of a rubbish dump. Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died early Tuesday in Aguereb, in the Sfax region on the central coast, after...

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...