Social & Human Affairs Bound

The age of 43, Aboubacar Traore is trying once again to kickstart his life after three failed attempts at migration. Poor and adrift, the stonemason and former imam is back in his native Mali -- a tale painfully common in a region where dreams of a better life abroad...

An Algerian journalist was released from prison Wednesday only to return directly to court for hearings in two other cases, an activist group said. Abdelkrim Zeghileche, head of the web-based Radio Sarbacane, was arrested in June and was last month given a 12-month...

Tunisia’s environment minister and others arrested over Italian trash scandal Tunisia arrested a dozen people including its environment minister Monday in a scandal over hundreds of containers of household waste shipped from Italy to the North African country. The 282...

An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman through her village in 2016, a judicial source said. Soad Thabet, 74, was paraded naked by a mob of violent vigiliantes after rumours surfaced that her son...