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By Amaury Hauchard - A printed sheet of paper bearing a photo of Adoussouma hung on the crumbling wall at the Komeissou family home in Chad's capital N'Djamena, marking his death Tuesday in protests against the new military junta. The young man's broad smile in the...

Algerian authorities on Thursday released on probation a leading opposition activist opposed to the country's forthcoming elections, a prisoners' support group said. Karim Tabbou, a key figure in demonstrations that forced longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to...

Eastern Libyan military courts have sentenced at least 22 people to death and jailed hundreds more since 2018 in "sham, torture-tainted" trials to exert control, Amnesty International said Monday. "Military courts have convicted hundreds of civilians in eastern Libya...

Around 100 migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco, Spanish police said Monday. The migrants set off Sunday from beaches in Fnideq, a few kilometres south of Ceuta and "some" managed to reach a beach in Ceuta on their own while...