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Six presidential candidates will face off against the Central African Republic's incumbent leader Faustin Archange Touadera on Saturday (December 27, 2025). The opposition has accused Touadera, first elected in 2016,…
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Central African Republic reels with violence
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Cairo revives its nightlife
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Abducted girls ‘taken out of the country’
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