Social & Human Affairs Bound

What next for Mali as France plans military pullout? By Amaury Hauchard, with Laurent Lozano in Dakar France's announcement on Thursday that it will withdraw its military from Mali marks a profound shift in the balance of power in the Sahel. Allied forces from...

Algerian prosecutors on Thursday called for harsher penalties against journalist and press freedom activist Khaled Drareni, his lawyer said, after an appeal against his two-year prison sentence. The 41-year-old, who used to work for French news channel TV5 Monde and...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Tuesday that the government would introduce youth unemployment benefits as the North African nation struggles with a jobless rate of almost 15 percent. The payments will be made "to preserve the dignity of young people",...

Tunisia will return more than 280 containers of waste illegally imported from Italy in 2020, the north African country's environment ministry said Monday. The containers were brought in by a Tunisian company that falsely claimed that the household waste -- barred from...