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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...
The EU’s Silent Partner: Mauritania’s Migration Deal Under Scrutiny
Mauritania is getting €210 million in EU funding to act as a migration gatekeeper to fortress Europe. The northwest...
Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push back
By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention...
Morocco: Health of jailed intellectual Maatib Monjib reportedly deteriorating
Supporters of a jailed Moroccan historian and rights activist expressed "serious concern" for his health on Wednesday,...
Morocco: Jailed historian Maati Monjib goes on hunger strike
A Moroccan historian and rights activist who was jailed in January has begun a hunger strike, supporters and a legal...
Tunisia’s gender violence law struggles to get beyond paper
When Nadia told police about her husband's violence during a coronavirus lockdown in Tunisia, she nearly lost custody...
Tunisia: Uproar in Tunisia over arrest of LGBT campaigner Rania Amdouni
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Tunisian capital Saturday to demand the release of a gay rights and...
Egypt continues to favor capital punishment, executes 11 people
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source said, in the latest cases of...
Algeria says it released 59 political prisoners but continues to unleash violence on peaceful protesters
Algerian police and biased judicial system still on the hunt The presidential pardon has not stopped the security...
Morocco: Protests in northern Morocco over social and economic despair
The Moroccan authorities dispatched police reinforcement to the northern city of Fnideq, where protests have erupted...
Algeria: People of Kherrata mark second anniversary of anti-regime Hirak movement
Kherrata, Algeria, Feb 16, 2021 (AFP) - Several thousand Algerians rallied in a northern town Tuesday, almost two...
The Amazigh people of Libya struggling for recognition
Amid increasing violence between two rival factions, the country’s biggest indigenous people get set for an uncertain...
Tunisia: As the world decriminalizes use of cannabis, Tunisian law remains stubbornly intransigent
Thirty years' jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era...
Morocco under pressure to release from prison historian and rights activist Maati Monjib
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Morocco to release dissident historian and rights activist Maati Monjib, who...
Morocco’s abusive use of preventative detention
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
Libya: Growing pressure on Tripoli-based government over mass graves
Human Rights Watch appealed Thursday to Libya's internationally recognised government to launch an investigation aimed...
Jailed Algerian pro-democracy activists in hospital amid hunger strike
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
Egypt: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
Morocco arrests rights activist and historian Maati Monjib
Algeria and Morocco continue to repress journalists and rights activists
Algeria: Journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche faces heightened judicial harassment
An Algerian journalist was released from prison Wednesday only to return directly to court for hearings in two other...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...
Libya: 18 foreign fishermen released from warlord Haftar’s prisons
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed,...
Morocco: Franco-Moroccan agreement on repatriation of child migrants
Paris and Rabat signed an agreement Monday on repatriating underage Moroccan migrants, the most complex of the...
Algeria: Iconic opposition activist Karim Tabbou gets one-year suspended sentence
Algerian opposition activist Karim Tabbou, a key figure in anti-government protests last year, was given a one-year...
Egypt: French President Macron fails to confront Sisi on Egypt’s human rights abuses
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday rejected criticism of his close ties with visiting Egyptian strongman Abdel...
Minorities: The Amazigh people remain abused by North African regimes
The Berbers of Egypt: By Hager Harabech Siwa Oasis, Egypt, Dec 2, 2020 - Youssef Diab drives his truck through the...
Egypt and Italy appear to abandon the pursuit of truth in murder of Guilio Regeni in Egypt
Egypt is to "temporarily close" its investigation into the murder in Cairo of Italian student Guilio Regeni, for which...
Egypt arrests photographer because he took this photo of Salma al-Shimi
Egyptian police have detained a photographer for disrespect after he shot images of a dancer in ancient costume at the...
Sahel: 42 human rights demonstrators arrests in Nouakchott
Podcast: Tunisia faces a chaotic situation, as economic woes could derail political progress
Transcript Tunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic...
Algeria: Appeals court ridicules lower court for issuing 10 year jail sentence over opinion on religion
Tunisia slides into repression after jailing of blogger Wajdi Mahouechi
The unfinished Arab spring: buckle up for the next round
Egypt continues to jail human rights activists
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday arrested a second staff member of a leading local human rights group, the...
Egypt: Man tries to sets himself alight during anti-government protest
An Egyptian man set himself alight in central Cairo in an anti-government protest on Thursday, but was stopped before...