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
Tunisia's electoral authority on Monday announced it had approved three presidential candidates for the October 6 election, including incumbent President Kais Saied, dismissing three other would-be candidates despite court rulings allowing them to run.
The three dismissed candidates had last week won appeals at the Administrative Court against a decision from the High Independent Authority for Elections (ISIE) disqualifying them from running.
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