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A second round of talks on ending the Western Sahara conflict will be held in Switzerland this week.
A UN envoy is moving ahead with plans to hold a second round of talks this month on settling the decades-old conflict in Western Sahara, the UN spokesman said Tuesday.
Burkina Faso's army responded to a massacre in a village by launching an operation that killed 146 jihadis.
President Ould Abdel Aziz says social media represents a 'threat to the country's security'.
Qatar is making a comeback in the Levant, with the emir visiting Beirut for an Arab summit boycotted by most regional leaders, and investing $500 million investment in Lebanon's bonds.
Qatar has pledged $50 million to create jobs for young people in the Middle East at an Arab economic summit in Lebanon, local newspaper al-Sharq reported.
Qatar’s ruler attended the summit, which has been marred by divisions over readmitting Syria to the Arab League.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani arrived in Beirut on Sunday and left after attending the opening session of the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit (AESD), Lebanese state media reported.
Syria, whose membership was suspended by the Arab League in 2012, was not invited despite demands by allies of Damascus in Lebanon.
Reports have emerged that Mauritania's president will visit Damascus amid efforts to return Syrian regime head Bashar al-Assad to the diplomatic arena.
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