According to a Human Rights Watch report out this week security forces in junta-led Burkina Faso and Mali are carrying out increased abuses against civilians as they expand their operations against jihadist groups. In Mail, the same report accuses the army of carrying out drone strikes in February on a wedding celebration and on a burial in the same village, killing at least 14 people, including four children. Meanwhile, in Burkina Faso (also ruled by a junta), a report by AP, documented the killing of dozens of civilians by security forces in the central village of Zaongo back in November.
Algeria’s prosecutor has appealed the five-year prison sentence handed to Boualem Sansal, a French-Algerian writer convicted of undermining Algeria’
Italy will invest €20 million ($22 million) to support Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia in voluntary repatriation programs for irregular migrants,
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the Egyptian city of Arish next Tuesday, his office announced according to AFP. The
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a series of new tariffs under his 'Liberation Day' trade policy on
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