Somalia’s government forces beat and arrested a record number of journalists in 2019, the country’s journalists’ syndicate told Reuters news agency, prompting suggestions that the government is suppressing scrutiny of ...
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected last month and appointed Abdelaziz Djerad as prime minister on Saturday. They have kept several important posts unchanged, seemingly signalling continuity in major state policies. ...
The Arab League has called for efforts to “prevent foreign interference” in Libya in the wake of military and maritime agreements between Turkey and the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. Permanent representatives ...
Radi was released Tuesday soon after an appeal court in Casablanca accepted his request, according to his lawyer Omar Benjelloun. Radi’s arrest last week was apparently prompted by a tweet ...
TRIPOLI, Libya — When the European Union started funneling millions of euros into Libya to slow the tide of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the money came with EU promises to ...
Aminata Gaye picks up a grey scarf and stretches it into a T shape. She ducks under the fabric, wraps it around her neck and crisscrosses it over the crown ...
Ble Goude was cleared of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague this year, along with his former boss, Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo. But following ...
CAIRO — A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against longtime autocrat ...
The death of protester Ahmed al-Khair, a school teacher, while in detention in February was a key point — and a symbol — in the uprising that eventually led to ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The two Somali sisters were studying to be doctors. They were in a minibus on their way to university on Saturday morning when their world exploded. Now, ...
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