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Mali bans France-backed NGOs’ activities
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Algeria’s regime has once again turned to its familiar playbook, accusing Morocco of deliberately polluting a shared waterway in a bid to deflect attention from its own chronic environmental failures. In a country where citizens have for years been queuing for milk and recently for potatoes, the media have geared attention to the neighbor on […]



