Social & Human Affairs Bound

Italy and Tunisia were pressed on Thursday to clear hundreds of containers of waste illegally shipped and stored at a port in the North African county. In the summer of 2020, Tunisian customs officials seized 282 containers that had been shipped from Italy and...

By Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret - Prominent journalist Khaled Drareni, a symbol of the struggle for a free press in Algeria, is to face a retrial after the supreme court accepted his lawyers' cassation appeal on Thursday. "The supreme court overturned the...

By Hamza Mekouar - A decade after the fall of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi and the end of his regime's stranglehold on information, hopes for a free media remain a mirage. With the 2011 uprising followed by a long and often violent transition, media professionals...

By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Hamza Nasri, a young Tunisian activist, hit the streets as part of anti-government protests in recent months. Now he says he is under police watch and afraid for his friends.  "I've moved house three times in recent months. I've stopped...