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The government of Chad announced Thursday it would open an inquiry after Facebook said it had closed down fake accounts used by Russia and France in a battle for influence in Africa. The US tech giant said on Tuesday it had closed down two Russian-linked networks of...

An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman through her village in 2016, a judicial source said. Soad Thabet, 74, was paraded naked by a mob of violent vigiliantes after rumours surfaced that her son...

Algeria has announced tighter state controls over online media, sparking alarm in the North African country whose pro-democracy movement is under heightened pressure from the government. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's government, already accused of stifling free...

Burkina Faso's top court on Friday certified that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had been elected for a second five-year term in a November poll. "The candidate Kabore, Roch Marc Christian, is elected president," Constitutional Court head Kassoum Kambou...