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Mali braces for mass protest despite presidential call for talks with oppositionF

Bamako, June 17, 2020 (By Kassim Traore) - Malian opposition leader Mahmoud Dicko on Wednesday urged people to protest en masse on Friday, despite recent government overtures to the resurgent political opposition in the war-torn West African state.  Dicko, an...
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Opinion: Tunisia, A Gulf Crisis BattlegroundF

By Giorgio Cafiero (@GulfStateAnalyt) and Aicha El Alaoui:  Over the past ten years, Gulf states—chiefly Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—have at times ambitiously, boldly, and decisively intervened in the Maghreb. Since the Arab Spring...
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Egypt: Nile dam talks getting complicated, experiencing deadlockF

Egypt said Saturday that tripartite talks with Ethiopia and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam on the River Nile were deadlocked because of Addis Ababa's "intransigence". The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin...
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Algeria: Frightened by the likely resumption of protest movement, Algeria intensifies attacks on pro-democracy activistsF

Algiers, June 14, 2020 - Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested three activists from the "Hirak" protest movement, a human rights group said, in the second day of arrests targeting members of the group. Hakik Addad, Zoheir Keddam and Fodil Boumala, who had been...
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