Politics Bound

Tunisia: UGTT union chief rejects talks with IMF in fear of tough austerity measuresF

Tunisia's largest union on Monday attacked the government's handling of negotiations with the IMF on a loan to bail out the North African country as it slides deeper into debt. Tunisia is seeking a bailout package worth nearly $2 billion from the International...
Read More

Egypt: Al Jazeera Journalist Hisham Abdelaziz released from prison as Egypt moves closer to QatarF

The authorities in Egypt have released a journalist with the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network nearly four years after he was detained, the media outlet said. Hisham Abdelaziz, a producer with the  network's Mubasher channel, was arrested in June 2019 after being...
Read More

The collapsing SudanF

The UN on Monday warned more than 800,000 people could flee fighting and dire conditions in Sudan, where explosions again shook the capital in violation of the latest truce extension agreed by warring generals.  The chaos and bloodshed, now in their third week, have...
Read More

Tunisian court orders detention of leading Islamist opposition figure GhannouchiF

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been remanded in custody following his arrest earlier this week, his Ennahdha party said Thursday, denouncing his "unjust imprisonment". Ghannouchi, 81, a former speaker of parliament, was arrested on Monday after...
Read More

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.