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News highlights and features from AFP reporters in the Middle East & North Africa #Mena Tweets in English et Français. Follow @AFP @afpfr @AFPphoto @AFPar

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@EmmaRaducanu @GMA any thoughts of seeing your parents?

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@talkSPORT He's half-right, VvD will struggle!

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Yemeni pupils on the first day of the new academic year at a destroyed building #Yemen

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Au #Yémen en guerre, nouvelle rentrée scolaire pour des dizaines d'enfants dans les ruines de leur école, largement détruite par une frappe aérienne sur la ville de Taëz il y a deux ans #AFP

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La campagne pour le référendum sur la révision de la Constitution censée fonder une " #Algérie nouvelle" et répondre aux aspirations du mouvement de protestation s'ouvre dans une large indifférence au sein de la population.

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In the Jabalia #refugee camp in the northern #Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a staff member sorts #books to give to pupils as they return to #school #AFP 📸 @AFPphoto by Mohammed Abed

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#Syrian children attend classes in a tent on Tuesday at a camp for internally displaced people in the town of Maarat Misrin, in the country's northwestern #Idlib province #AFP 📸 @AFPphoto by @omar_hajkadour

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"It is lighting a candle in the dark," says Fawzi al-Ghoudi in #Yemen's rebel-held capital #Sanaa, of his initiative to reignite people's interest in #books, as an escape from the grimness of #war #AFP story: https://t.co/e5ff7yBfSI 📸 @AFPphoto by Mohammed Huwais

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Manifestation contre le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu à Jérusalem, malgré les restrictions liées au coronavirus #AFP

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Un gibbon au Safari Park, le zoo de Dubaï qui a rouvert ses portes cette semaine #AFP

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Vue aérienne d'élèves syriens se mettant en rang avant d'entrer dans des tentes transformées en salles de classe dans un camp de déplacés dans la province d'Idleb, dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie #AFP

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A wind turbine stands between vineyards and fruit orchards in a wind farm near El-Rom settlement in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights close to the frontier with Syria #AFP

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US fighting armoured vehicle patrols near Rmeilan oil fields in northeast Syria's Kurdish-controlled Hasakeh province #AFP

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Dubai's Safari Park reopened its doors on October 5, after a two-year expansion, as the emirate seeks to boost its hard-hit tourism sector amid the coronavirus pandemic
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An Iraqi man wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sits at the train station in the southern city of Basra on October 5, 2020.

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In war-ravaged #Yemen, life goes on: a coffee fair in Sanaa. Yemen -- with #Ethiopia -- is said to be the birth place of coffee. Not only are the roasted beans used, but the husks are too - in the spiced ginger drink of 'qishr'. Photos by Mohammed Huwais for @AFPphoto

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In #Sudan, the army has begun a mass disarmament campaign - launching it by blowing up thousands of rifles. Guns are common in a country trying to build peace after decades of civil war, but key rebels have recently signed a landmark peace deal https://t.co/p4D33MQ8kH

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Harvest time: #Palestinian families in Rafeh in #Gaza pick olives - which are then sorted and pressed into oil
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