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An aerial view shows participants of a Tolou Keur programme working on a newly built Tolou Keur garden in Boki Diawe, within the Great Green Wall area, in Matam region, Senegal, July 10, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Africa

Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence against desert

The project marks a new, more local approach to what is known as the Green Wall initiative, launched in 2007, that aims to slow desertification across Africa's Sahel region, the arid belt...

Police officers patrol a street in Tunis, Tunisia, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
Africa

Tunisia investigates parties as political crisis simmers

A supporter of Tunisia's biggest political party, the moderate Islamist Ennahda, scuffles with a police officer near the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
World+Biz

Tunisian Islamists move to ease tensions, unions demand roadmap

A bus carrying displaced people arrives at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 14, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
World+Biz

Food, water running out in Tigray refugee camps - UN

A machine gun mounted in a burnt-out truck on the road to Abiy Addi town in Ethiopia, July 10, 2021. The area saw fierce fighting between Ethiopia's military and Tigrayan forces. REUTERS/Giulia Paravicini
Africa

Grim aftermath of Ethiopian battle offers rare clues about brutal war

Tunisian military forces guard the area around the parliament building in the capital Tunis on July 26, 2021, following protests in reaction to a move by the president last night to suspend the north African country's parliament and dismiss the Prime Minister. [Fethi Belaid/AFP]
Africa

Tunisia police storm Al Jazeera office in Tunis

A supporter of Tunisia's biggest political party, the moderate Islamist Ennahda, scuffles with a police officer near the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
World+Biz

Possible scenarios for Tunisia's political crisis

Mali's interim president Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of two military coups, arrives to attend the Eid Al Adha prayer at a mosque in Bamako, Mali July 20, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Africa

Man accused of attempted assassination of Mali president dies in custody

Tunisia's President Kais Saied waves as he is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Photo: Reuters
Africa

Tunisian president is a political outsider accused of a coup

Picture: Reuters
Africa

Kidnappers in Nigeria release 28 schoolchildren, another 81 still held, says negotiator

Photo: Screenshot of the map of Cameroon taken from Google Maps.
Africa

At least six Cameroonian soldiers killed in raid by Islamist insurgents

Ethiopia Flag. Picture: Reuters
Africa

Fighting in Ethiopia's Afar forces 54,000 people to flee, official says

Container ships wait to load and offload goods in port during a 21-day nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Cape Town, South Africa, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
Africa

Cyber attack disrupts major South African port operations