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Tunisia: Hundreds of policemen protesting after colleagues were arrested for demanding right to unionizeF

More than 200 police officers protested in Tunisia's second city of Sfax on Wednesday to demand the release of eight arrested colleagues and defend their right to unionise, an AFP correspondent said. Responding to a call from the SNSI police union, the plainclothes...
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Environment: Severe floods wreck havoc on West African agricultureF

By Aminu Abubakar Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from devastating floods that have destroyed farmland across the north of the country. Parts of West and central Africa have been battered by floods ravaging...
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Islam: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Sunni scholar with major influence on North Africa, dies at 96F

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Sunni scholar and spiritual leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement, has died aged 96, his Twitter account announced Monday. Qaradawi was imprisoned several times in his home country of Egypt over his links to the...
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Tunisia: Mayor of Mornag arrested after municipal police seized scales of street vendor who committed suicideF

Tunisian police on Monday arrested the mayor of a town where a fruit seller committed suicide after his scales were seized by council officials, sparking protests, a judicial spokesman said. Mohamed Amine Dridi, 25, hanged himself on Saturday two days after the...
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