A wave of youth-driven demonstrations swept through Morocco over the past several nights, with rallies unfolding in at...
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Ethnic Targeting in West Africa and Sahel: The Forgotten Plight of the Fulani
What’s happening to the Fulani in the Sahel isn’t just war — it’s collective punishment. This is the story no one...
Tunisia’s Opposition Faces Mounting Legal Pressure
Government actions against opposition figures continue to dominate the political landscape in Tunisia. This week and...
Tunisia: Union launches nationwide strike to demand pay raises, threatens actions against reforms
By Paul Raymond Flights were cancelled, public transport ground to a halt and government offices were closed in a...
Egypt: Family of jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah says he is on hunger strike, regime denies
Egypt's interior ministry said Thursday it has footage of jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah that "disproves" a report...
Western Sahara human rights defender Sultana Khaya released after 19 months of house arrest
Human rights defender Sultana Khaya arrived in southeastern Spain Friday where she will receive medical treatment for...
Western Sahara: Reports of Moroccan security forces assaulting Sahrawi militants
Human rights group Amnesty International Friday urged Moroccan authorities to investigate urgently allegations that...
Egypt: Regime pardons 11 political prisoners, but keeps 60,000 others in jail
A presidential pardon on Wednesday saw Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi released from jail after three...
Algeria: Pro-democracy activist El Hadi Lassouli faces danger in Algeria prison
The life of a prominent Algerian activist is in danger after he began his second hunger strike during 11 months in...
Algerian government targets its citizens abroad, bans those who call for democratic reform
Summary: The Algerian authorities have begun to process of banning from entering Algeria its nationals who reside...
Morocco: Dozens of teachers sent to prison for protesting and “insulting a state body”
Forty-five Moroccan teachers have been handed suspended prison sentences for attending unauthorised protests last year...
Tunisia: Protest in Tunis over president’s “power grab” as economy worsens
Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power...
Algeria wants to jail right activist Zaki Hannache over bogus charge of “apology for terrorism”
An Algerian court on Thursday charged rights activist Zaki Hannache of "praising terrorism" and spreading "false news"...
Algeria’s harassment of journalists continues, prosecutors wants more prison time to journalist Drareni
Algerian prosecutors on Thursday called for harsher penalties against journalist and press freedom activist Khaled...
Algerian doctors leaving their country in droves, as nearly third of youth say they want to leave too
Women in Algerian prisons just for their opinions Mostaganem: After court postpones trial, jailed Hirak activity...
Human Rights: Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni maintains his innocence during appeal hearing
A Moroccan journalist sentenced to five years in prison for indecent assault in a controversial case proclaimed his...
Tunisia: Jailed ex-minister in hospital, refuses treatment and food
Tunisia's detained former justice minister Noureddine Bhiri is refusing food or medication after his transfer to...
Egypt: Italian parliamentary commission accuses Egypt security services of murdering Italian student Giulio Regeni
Egypt's security agency is to blame for the 2016 torture and death of an Italian graduate student in Cairo, according...
Egyptian court sentences 22 Jihadists to death by hanging
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the...
Egypt: France reportedly supplied Egypt intelligence that led to the murder of civilians
Egypt has used intelligence supplied by the French military to target and "kill civilians" suspected of smuggling,...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a dangerous landfill
By Aymen Jamli - [Watch video at bottom] As tear gas and protest cries filled the air in the Tunisian town of Agareb,...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a landfill
Clashes flared again on Thursday between security forces and residents of a Tunisian town protesting against the...
Tunisian regime uses military courts to repress civilians
A growing number of Tunisian civilians have faced trial before military courts since President Kais Saied's July power...
Tunisia: General strike in Aguereb after death of resident from tear gas inhalation
A Tunisian city held a general strike on Wednesday, after a protester died of tear gas inhalation during angry...
Egypt’s repressive regime wants to punish rights advocate over single tweet
An Egyptian court is to issue a verdict on November 29 in the case of Hossam Bahgat, one of the country's most...
Return to authoritarianism fuels anger in the Arab world
By Ezzedine Said A military coup in Sudan has dealt another blow to democracy in the Arab world, months after a power...
Morocco: Rights activist Maati Monjib to resume hunger strike
Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib said Wednesday he was again going on hunger strike to protest a...
Algeria: Regime’s war against civil society intensifies
A court in Algiers dissolved NGO and civil society organization Youth Action Rally (RAJ), causing uproar among...
Algeria: Attacks on journalists continue
(Photo: Journalists Mouloudj (left) and Bouras (right)): An Algerian journalist and rights activist was taken into...
Egypt condemns 8 foreigners to death for smuggling heroin
A court in Egypt on Sunday sentenced eight foreigners and two Egyptians to death on charges of smuggling in over two...
Tunisia: The problem of arbitrary practices in Tunisia
The World Organisation Against Torture on Friday urged Tunisia's President Kais Saied -- who suspended the country's...
Regimes in Algeria and Tunisia gang up to kill democracy and human rights
Algeria-Tunisia: Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours Tunisian opposition politician and media owner Nabil Karoui and...
Morocco: Woman to walk free after more than 3 years in prison over religious views
A dual Moroccan-Italian citizen jailed for three and a half years for "insulting Islam" will walk free Monday after a...
Egyptian military accused of committing extra-judicial killings
Amnesty International called Thursday for an investigation after it said an Egyptian army video apparently showed...
Morocco piles more charges on jailed journalist Omar Radi
A Moroccan court on Thursday sentenced journalist and rights activist Omar Radi -- already imprisoned on charges of...
Morocco punishes journalist Omar Radi, sentences him to six years in prison
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi to six years...
Under pressure, Egypt releases from prison six activists
By Mona Salem Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011...
A secret trial in Morocco
A Moroccan judge on Tuesday took the trial of journalist and rights activist Omar Radi behind closed doors, a move his...
Algerian Sahara: Unemployment and poverty riots erupt around Algeria’s southern oil and gas hubs
There has been escalating unrest in several localities in the northeast Algerian Sahara. The oil hubs of Ouargla,...
Libya: Migrants returned to Libya by Europe suffer “horrific violations’
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the "horrific violations" being committed against migrants returned to...
Egyptian law to punish state employees who show dissenting views
Egypt's parliament Monday authorised the dismissal of public workers listed as government opponents and "terrorists",...
Moroccan journalist Raissouni sentenced to five years in jail
Detained Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni was sentenced on Friday to five years in jail for indecent assault...
Algeria: Forest fires, food poisoning, and polluted beaches underscore mediocrity of Algerian regime
200 people admitted in hospitals after bathing in polluted beach Nearly 200 people were hospitalised briefly after...