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Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. "Colonel Assimi Goita... granted a pardon with full remission of sentences...

Tunisia faces a year of low economic growth and runaway inflation, and urgently needs a bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund, its central bank chief said Wednesday. "We need to reach a deal with the IMF as soon as possible to mobilise external finance in...

Three Egyptian policemen were killed and four others, including a police officer, wounded Friday in an attack in the Suez  Canal city of Ismailia, security and medical sources said.  Two cars approached a checkpoint in a residential neighbourhood of the city and two...