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Nineteen (19) migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a human rights group said on Sunday, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia. In the last four…

Almost 300 Ivoirians were repatriated on Thursday from Tunisia, where migrants say they no longer feel safe after President Kais Saied had said they represented a demographic threat. The ambassador of Ivory Coast in Tunis, Ibrahim Sy…

Tunisian president has denounced racism and pointed to possible legal consequences for perpetrators 10 days after announcing a crackdown on illegal migration using language the African Union condemned as "racialised hate speech". During a…

Almost 300 people returned from Tunisia to Mali and Ivory Coast on after boarding repatriation flights, fearful of a wave of violence since the president launched a tirade against migrants. Last month President Kais Saied ordered…

A number of thousands of people demonstrated Wednesday in Diapaga, in eastern Burkina Faso, to demand "more security", three days after a deadly attack on a neighbouring town whose death toll remains unknown. "SOS", "We also have the…

In Mozambique the authorities are still dealing with the effects of the heavy rains that caused floods in the province of Maputo this week. Local sources reported that at least 2,400 families have been affected. The floods affected…

Official results after voting ended in Tunisia, on 29th January, highlighted that just 11.3 percent of voters had taken part in the poll. The country’s main opposition coalition which includes the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha urged a…

Thirty-eight people died and earthy were wounded in central Senegal after two buses collided in the on Sunday, President Macky Sall said in statements. The crash, one of the deadliest in the West African country's recent memory, was on one…

Forty-six Ivorian soldiers recently pardoned by Mali's junta flew home to Ivory Coast's Abidjan airport after around six months in captivity. Their return signals the apparent resolution of a diplomatic standoff between the West African…

A Senegalese journalist and prominent anti-government critic is “extremely strained” after a two-week hunger strike he launched in protest of his detention, his lawyer said. Pape Ale Niang, head of the Dakar Matin online news site, was…