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Gunmen on Thursday killed 19 people in a raid on a rural community in central Nigeria night, police said Friday. The assailants, yet unidentified, attacked the village of Tawari in Kogi State, 100 kilometres south of the federal capital Abuja, and

Libya’s eastern-based parliament on Saturday voted against an agreement that would allow Ankara to send troops to Libya. The internationally recognized Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) voted against a deployment requested by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). The Western-based GNA had

Renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has called on Libyans to take up arms in response to a prospective military intervention from Turkey aimed at shoring up the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. The beleaguered Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), headed by

French police used tear gas to disperse protesters blockading a Paris bus depot on Thursday, the latest confrontation between authorities and unions over plans to reform the pension system. Video footage from a BFM television reporter published on Twitter showed police

Tunisia’s prime minister-designate Thursday announced a proposed government composed of independent figures, after months of negotiations between political parties failed to fill vacant positions. The cabinet – comprised of 28 ministers, most of whom are unknown to the general public, including

Turkey’s Coast Guard Command stopped 60,802 illegal migrants trying to travel to Europe via Turkey’s coastline in 2019. This is the highest number since 2015 when Turkish shores saw an unprecedented influx of migrants, especially from Syria, trying to reach nearby

The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo climbed to 2,209 from 2,150 reported in October, the African Union (AU) said Thursday. From October to Dec. 8, the number of casualties rose by 59, according to a latest

An exit poll in Britain’s election projected late Thursday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party likely will win a majority of seats in Parliament, an outcome that would allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of