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Tunisia: Journalist Zied El-Heni released from jail, gets six-month suspended sentence
Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month...
UN rapporteur on human rights pressures Algeria to release jailed activists
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human...
Egypt attacks female online media personalities, five of them sentenced to prison
Moroccan court orders journalist Soulaimane Raissouni to stay in prison
Egypt: At least 14 inmates died from Covid-19 in Egyptian prisons
Algerian police arrest singer for criticizing dilapidated hospital
Egypt: You are considered a criminal if you fly a kite in Egypt
Tunisia: Conservative court sends Emna Charki to prison for parody linking the Koran and Covid-19
Burkina Faso government under pressure over extrajudicial killings
Egypt: US tells Egypt to quit harassing Americans
Egypt accused of intimidating family of activist Mohamed Soltan
Algeria: Five more people sentenced to prison for protesting
Amnesty says Morocco used NSO’s Pegasus software to spy on journalist Omar Radi
Algerian regime maintains its attacks on civilians, jails mother of two
Egypt: Murder of Giulio Regeni remains thorny issue in Italy
Algerian government attacks pro-democracy activists
Egypt holds doctors in prison for speaking out on health crisis
Sahel: Rights group accuses Niger of ‘war crime’ in the execution of alleged Boko Haram fighters
Algeria: Frightened by the likely resumption of protest movement, Algeria intensifies attacks on pro-democracy activists
Sahel: Government forces sowing terror in the Sahel
Sahel: Growing concern over soldiers’ misconduct in the Sahel
Egypt: While Sisi sends aid to China, Italy and US, Egypt’s health system is about to collapse
Moroccan authorities attack more journalists of Akhbar Al-Yaum
Egypt arrests 11 for allegedly sharing ‘fake news’ with Al-Jazeera
Algeria: Blind repression and worsening freedoms in Algeria
Algiers, May 20, 2020 - Algeria has sentenced three opposition activists to jail over Facebook posts, in what rights...
Burkina Faso: Rights group wants investigation into extra-judicial killings
Ouagadougou, May 20, 2020 - Human Rights Watch called Wednesday on the Burkina Faso authorities to hold an...
Egypt: Eid al-Fitr under lockdown
Cairo, May 17, 2020 - Egypt on Sunday announced a lengthening of its night-time curfew and other measures to prevent...
Egypt: Regime of General Sisi arrests Mada Masr Editor
Egyptian security services on Sunday detained the editor-in-chief of prominent independent news outlet Mada Masr, its...
Algeria: Despite repression, Algeria braces for resumption of anti-regime protests ($)
Algerian regime makes minor gesture toward Hirak, releases two rights activists
Algiers, May 18, 2020 - A leading figure in Algeria's "Hirak" anti-government protest movement has been released from...
Sahel: Niger sinking into chaos
By Boureima Hama - Amid clucking chickens and bleating sheep, the women of Gadbo, a small village in western Niger,...
Egypt: A flyover symbolizing a mediocre government ($)
Mali: Unrest in Kayes over police violence, three more civilians killed
[Updated May 13, 2020]: Protesters torched an administrative building in the central Malian city of Kayes on...
Algeria: Regime launches frontal assault on pro-democracy movement
By Philippe Agret - The Algerian regime is exploiting coronavirus to defeat a protest movement that has shaken it to...
Egypt military regime ratchets up repressive measures against population
Cairo, May 8, 2020 - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified a host of amendments to Egypt's emergency law which...
Morocco: RSF said TV crew attacked by police near Rabat
Rabat, Marocco, May 8, 2020 - Moroccan authorities said Friday they would investigate a case of an attack on...
Egypt: Sisi regime extends pre-trial detentions
Beirut, May 7, 2020 - Amnesty International lambasted Egypt on Thursday for extending the pre-trial detention of over...
Libya: Haftar intensifies rocket attacks on Tripoli
Tripoli, May 8, 2020 - Rocket and shell fire on Tripoli has killed at least 13 civilians and two policemen in the...
Maghreb: A Ramadan unlike no other
Algiers, May 7, 2020 (By Abdelhafid Daamache) - North Africans say they are missing the taste of Ramadan, as...
Algeria: Government braces for intensification of Hirak after pandemic ($)
Morocco: After launching spy app, Morocco deploys surveillance drones
Rabat, May 6, 2020 - Morocco has rapidly expanded its fleet of drones as it battles the coronavirus pandemic,...
Nigeria: First man to be hanged in ‘virtual’ trial
Lagos, May 5, 2020 - A Nigerian court sentenced a man to death in the country's first ever virtual ruling during a...