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Twenty-three people detained after taking part in a protest march in the Algerian capital last week have gone on hunger  strike, a prisoners' support group said Saturday. The CNLD said they launched their action on Wednesday in El Harrach jail, after being detained on...

The security forces in Chad have brutally stifled dissent in the run-up to presidential elections this weekend, banning demonstrations, beating up protesters and carrying out arbitrary arrests, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. The country's president, Idriss...

Spain and France are chartering planes and ferries to bring home thousands of their nationals stranded in Morocco because of the pandemic, their embassies said on Twitter. Rabat last week decided to suspend all passenger flights to and from the two European countries...

Libya's interim prime minister on Sunday announced the arrival of the first batch of vaccines against Covid-19, as the war-torn country's crumbling health system struggles against a mounting caseload. "Thanks to God, we have managed to import the first batch of...