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President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia and Turkey of seeking to promote anti-French sentiment in Africa by funding  people who whip up resentment against France in the media, in an interview published Friday. "We must not be naive on this subject: many of those who...

Burkina Faso will vote in a general election Sunday in the shadow of a growing jihadist insurgency, with President Roch Marc Christian Kabore expected to win re-election. But no votes in the presidential and parliament polls will be cast in one-fifth of the country's...

Spain's defence minister admitted Friday the government needed to look critically at its approach to the migrant crisis at an overwhelmed Canary Islands port after conditions there became "unsuitable for humans". The situation at Arguineguin port on Gran Canaria, the...

Covid assaults the MENA region Iran, Jordan and Morocco have recorded thousands of new Covid-19 infections in recent days, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that lockdowns could not stamp out the pandemic. "More than 60 percent of all cases in the...