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Morocco on Tuesday said it was lifting a nationwide pandemic curfew thanks to an improving health situation and widespread vaccinations. Infections had surged in the North African country after it initially eased the curfew -- imposed early in the pandemic -- and...

A growing number of Tunisian civilians have faced trial before military courts since President Kais Saied's July power grab, in some cases simply for criticising authorities, Amnesty International warned Wednesday. "In the past three months alone, the military justice...

A Tunisian city held a general strike on Wednesday, after a protester died of tear gas inhalation during angry demonstrations over the reopening of a rubbish dump. Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died early Tuesday in Aguereb, in the Sfax region on the central coast, after...

Three people were killed and two children injured in a building collapse in Algeria following heavy rainfall, rescue services said Wednesday.  The building collapsed in the Algiers suburb of Bologhine on Tuesday, following a landslide caused by torrential rain that...