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Bamako, July 11, 2020 - Tensions ran high in Mali Saturday, a day after deadly mass protests seeking the ouster of the fragile nation's president, as the opposition vowed to turn up the heat until he quits. Friday saw the worst civil unrest against President Ibrahim...

Fana, Mali, July 10, 2020 - Boubou Sangare, his face blank, points at a patch of ground beneath the entrance to an adobe house.  It was here that he discovered his brother Bakary's severed head, on the morning of June 10, lying next to his body. The 40-year-old former...

Rabat (AFP) - Morocco reported Sunday 698 additional novel coronavirus infections, the highest one-day increase since the outbreak began in early March, with numerous cases discovered in a port city factory. The new figures bring the official total in the North...

Unidentified armed men massacred 31 civilians in simultaneous attacks on several Mali villages this week, then killed nine soldiers responding to the assault as violence surges in the country's conflict-wracked centre. An Islamist insurgency that  erupted in the north...