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Tripoli, Nov 14, 2019 (By Nawas Al-Darraji) - A Libyan teachers' strike over salaries and "phantom" employees has closed schools for the past month in a country where education has already been hard hit by conflict and political turmoil. The teachers, who earn on...

Russia on Thursday denied US media reports that it had sent mercenaries from private military group Wagner to fight in Libya. The New York Times reported Tuesday that some 200 Russian fighters from Wagner had arrived in Libya over the last six weeks including snipers....

France's defence minister said Tuesday she was "optimistic" European forces would step up to bolster the fight against militancy in Mali, as the country reels from a devastating jihadist attack that killed dozens of soldiers. Mali's military is struggling to contain...

A "terrorist attack" on a military post in strife-torn northeastern Mali has left 49 soldiers dead, the army said Saturday, revising downward an earlier death toll.  The assault on Friday at Indelimane, in the Menaka region, close to the border with Niger, was one of...