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Nouakchott, June 3, 2019 - Two Mauritanian bloggers were freed on bail Monday after being held for more than two months on accusations of defaming President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, one of their lawyers said. Their release as the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan...

June 3, 2019  - Egypt on Monday urged all sides in Sudan to return to the negotiating table as security forces moved to break up a weeks-long protest camp in Khartoum. Violence erupted at the sit-in outside the army headquarters in the Sudanese capital earlier in the...

Tripoli, May 31, 2019 | By Nawas Al-Darraji: Precariously perched 50 metres up an electricity pylon providing power to Libya's capital, Mohamad Dahman attempts to fix damage caused by fighting -- but hastily descends when a rocket explodes nearby. "We're used to...

Cairo, May 29, 2019 - Egyptian prosecutors ordered a journalist working for Qatar's Al Jazeera to remain in detention pending further investigation, despite a court order to release him, a security source said on Wednesday.  Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian national, was...