Senegal President says making 'progress' in talks with breakaway Sahel States
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said he is "making progress" in a mediation mission with
The leader of Algeria's main Islamist party on Thursday kicked off the official candidate submissions for the upcoming presidential election in which the incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, is the frontrunner.
Abdelaali Hassani, head of the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP) party,
was first to submit his candidacy on Thursday morning, hours before Tebboune was expected to do the same.
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