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A Franco-Algerian influencer, arrested as part of an investigation into online hate videos, appeared before French prosecutors on Saturday and will stand trial in March, authorities said.A diplomatic row between France and Algeria has flared up over the arrests of several Algerian social media influencers accused of inciting violence.Sofia Benlemmane, a Franco-Algerian woman in her …

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Residents of the French territory of Mayotte braced on Saturday for a storm expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain less than a month after the Indian Ocean archipelago was devastated by a deadly cyclone.Mayotte was placed on an orange weather alert in anticipation of the passage of Cyclone Dikeledi to the south of …

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rang a Wall Street-style bell to officially launch the country’s first stock exchange in 50 years on Friday, part of efforts to liberalise the struggling economy.Only one company was listed on the exchange on opening day — Wegagen  Bank — but an official said they were aiming to eventually include …

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The fall of Russian ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria has disrupted the Kremlin’s strategy not only for the Mediterranean but also for Africa, pushing it to focus on Libya as a potential foothold, experts say.Russia runs a military port and an air base on the Syrian coast, designed to facilitate its operations in the Mediterranean, …

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France threatened on Friday to “retaliate” if Algeria escalates a diplomatic row that has flared up over the arrests of Algerian social media influencers accused of inciting violence.Tensions between France and its former colony mounted after Algeria on Thursday sent back a suspect who had been arrested and expelled for a video posted on TikTok.They …

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Algeria is trying to humiliate France, France’s interior minister said on Friday, after several Algerian influencers were arrested for inciting violence in a growing crisis between Paris and its former colony.Four influencers supportive of Algerian authorities have been arrested in recent days over videos that are suspected of calling for violent acts in France.Algeria meanwhile …

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Authorities in northern Nigeria’s largest city have begun evacuating more than 5,000 street children seen as a “security threat” and a growing concern as an economic crisis forces more to fend for themselves.Sharia police, the Hisbah, have carried out midnight raids on motor parks, markets and street corners in the regional capital, Kano, since the …

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An estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Sudan, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).”Of this number, around 772,000 children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition,” Eva Hinds, UNICEF Sudan’s Head of Advocacy and Communication, told AFP late on …

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Algeria is trying to humiliate France, France’s interior minister said on Friday, after several Algerian influencers were arrested for inciting violence in a growing crisis between Paris and its former colony.Four Algerian influencers supportive of Algerian authorities have been arrested in recent days over videos that are suspected of calling for violent acts in France.Meanwhile, …

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Armed men tried to storm Chad’s presidential palace when President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was inside but 18 attackers and two soldiers were killed in the failed attack, the national prosecutor said Thursday.Deby denounced what he called an attempt to “crush” him as national television showed images of more than 10 armed men at the …

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