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Libya: Political divisions threaten the holding of this month’s electionsF

Libya court upholds presidential bid of PM Dbeibah A Libyan appeals court on Wednesday rejected two petitions against interim prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah's candidacy in this month's presidential election, Libyan media reported. The cases argued that Dbeibah was...
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Algeria: Pro-regime nationalist party FLN back in controlF

Algeria's long-dominant National Liberation Front has narrowly won local elections, preliminary results showed Tuesday, in a vote seen as key in efforts to turn the page on late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's rule. The FNL, which led the country's war of...
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Libya: As country prepares for elections, presence of foreign mercenaries remains thorny issueF

Fewer violations of the arms embargo on Libya have occurred this year as compared with 2020, but the "continuing presence" of foreign fighters is "still a serious threat," UN experts said in a confidential report. Nonetheless, while the "intense pace of delivery" of...
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Egypt: Italian parliamentary commission accuses Egypt security services of murdering Italian student Giulio RegeniF

Egypt's security agency is to blame for the 2016 torture and death of an Italian graduate student in Cairo, according to the findings of a Italian parliamentary commission published Wednesday. The final report of the special commission over the death of Giulio Regeni...
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Podcast: Lebanon FallingF

Podcast: Lebanon FallingF

Oct 12, 2022

The past months have been particularly horrendous for Lebanon, a country that used to be called the Switzerland of the...

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