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Tunisia: With a destabilized Libya, Tunisia grapples with migrant crisisF

Tunisia authorities on Thursday rescued 267 migrants, most of them Bangladeshis, who tried to sail from neighbouring Libya to Europe across the Mediterranean, the International Organization for Migration said. Tunisia's coastguard said the migrants, who also included...

Egypt’s conservatives working to reduce women’s rights with disgraceful medieval system of guardianshipF

By Mona Salem In a push to cement meagre rights, Egyptian women have been battling a "shocking" draft bill influenced by Islamic law which would have deepened a system of guardianship further restricting their daily lives. Nutritionist Mai Nasser remembered how...

Libya: Sexual slavery in Libya’s 21st centuryF

By Caroline Nelly Perrot For Aisha, sexual slavery was something you only heard about happening to others in television reports, until she found herself locked in a living "hell" in Libya. "I had left a nightmare only to fall into hell," said the migrant from Guinea,...

Morocco: Jailed journalist Soulaimane Raissouni in critical conditionF

A detained Moroccan journalist is "close to death" 76 days into a hunger strike, his family said as his trial resumed Tuesday in his absence.  Soulaimane Raissouni, editor-in-chief of now-defunct newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, is accused of indecent assault against...

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