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Algeria to elect parliament amid protest movement boycott By Philippe Agret Algeria holds a parliamentary election Saturday under the shadow of a protest movement boycott and deep scepticism the North African nation can escape political paralysis and worsening...

A video of what seems to be officers in civilian clothes beating a naked minor has sparked outrage in Tunisia, two days after a man died after fleeing police custody. Authorities launched investigations Thursday into both incidents which took place in the Tunis...

Three Nigerien policemen and a gendarme were killed overnight Wednesday when their patrol was ambushed on the border with Algeria, local sources said. The men were "killed by bandits near Assamaka", a desert town hosting a security post near Niger's northern border...

By Daphné Benoit French President Emmanuel Macron is set to announce Thursday a partial withdrawal of French troops deployed in the Sahel region of Africa for almost a decade to battle jihadist insurgents, three sources with knowledge of the plan told AFP. The issue...