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Thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with a lorry in central Mali during heavy rain on Tuesday, the government and local officials said. Road accidents are a regular occurrence in the former French colony, where the poor state...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday his administration is ready to raise the price of subsidised bread as part of its continued austerity push towards economic recovery. "The time has come for the price of a loaf of bread to increase from 5 piastres...

Fifteen soldiers have been killed and six more are missing after a "terrorist" attack in southwest Niger, near the border with Burkina Faso, the defence ministry announced Sunday. The soldiers were first ambushed and later hit by an improvised explosive device as they...

By Estelle Emonet Rescue ships picked up more than 700 people trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift vessels this weekend, mainly off the coasts of Libya and Malta, a migrant aid group said Sunday. The latest figures came as UN migration officials repeated...