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Des discussions sur le Sahara occidental, territoire que se disputent le Maroc et le Front Polisario, ont ouvert mercredi sous l’égide de l’ONU à Genève pour la première fois depuis 2012, l’occasion de tester les intentions des parties. Six ans après l’échec de négociations directes, le Maroc et le Front …

Until recently, the western Libyan port town of Sabratha was the country’s main people-smuggling hub, with criminal gangs overseeing the departure of thousands of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. But for the past year, under pressure from Europe, local authorities have been cracking down …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday quashed a rumour stemming from his ill health that he had died and been replaced by a lookalike impostor from Sudan, his spokesman said.

Sudan is experiencing a gold rush and is now the second-largest producer of gold in Africa and the ninth in the world. But production is driven by unregulated, artisanal (individual subsistence) mining: more than 1.5 million men who put their lives at risk to dig for and extract the precious …

In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby, researchers reported Wednesday.

French prime minister Édouard Philippe announced on Tuesday that the government would postpone a controversial fuel tax hike, but analysts say that this is unlikely to stem ‘yellow vest’ protesters’ anger.

France has struggled to douse Yellow Vest fuel-tax protests that have laid waste to symbols like the Champs-Élysées in a pall of tear gas and car fires. All over the country, Facebook users who lit the spark have been fanning the flames in real-time.

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn provided « substantial cooperation » to the special counsel’s Russia investigation, leading prosecutors to recommend he should not do any prison time, according to a court filing Tuesday.

In a historic first, the British Parliament found the government of Prime Minister Theresa May in contempt on Tuesday for failing to release in full the advice it received from the country’s top law officer about the terms of exiting the EU.

A powerful undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck off the east coast of New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, adding tsunmai waves had been observed.