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Mali has officially disbanded its military junta, according to a government decree seen by AFP on Tuesday, more than five months after the army deposed president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The junta briefly governed the country after the August 18 coup and formally...

Man hit by teargas canister in Sousse dies Protesters clashed with police in the central Tunisian town of Sbeitla on Monday, after a young man hit by a teargas canister during clashes last week died in hospital. Soldiers were deployed in front of the government...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday urged Egypt to cooperate with prosecutors seeking to try four Egyptian security officers over the torture and murder of an Italian student in Cairo. In a statement marking five years since Giulio Regeni went missing on...

Foreign forces ignored a deadline to pull out of Libya as scheduled Saturday under a UN-backed ceasefire deal, highlighting the fragility of peace efforts after a decade of conflict. Satellite images broadcast by CNN show a trench running tens of kilometres (miles)...