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For three decades, a UN-monitored ceasefire has kept a fragile peace in the disputed Western Sahara. Now a row over a remote desert truck stop is prompting talk of a return to war. The pro-independence Polisario Front declared the ceasefire over on Friday, after...

The pro-independence Polisario Front said Saturday that clashes are continuing in the disputed territory of Western Sahara after the Moroccan army launched an operation in the buffer zone on its southern border. "Fighting is continuing after the crime committed by...

An Egyptian man set himself alight in central Cairo in an anti-government protest on Thursday, but was stopped before the blaze grew too severe, a security source said. Mohammed Hosni doused himself in fuel while another man filmed him making a speech criticising the...

The 23.8-percent turnout was a record low for a major vote in Algeria, with fewer than 15 percent of eligible voters endorsing the constitutional document Algerians approved constitutional reforms in a referendum, though with a record low turnout, the country's...