Social & Human Affairs Bound

Police have arrested 42 people in Mauritania, rights groups and police said Sunday, after a protest demanding justice for victims of civil unrest between 1989 and 1991. Tensions between the West African state's black population and lighter-skinned Berber-Arab Moors...

   Transcript Tunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic impact on the country on many fronts.  But the system put in place after the 2011 Jasmine Revolution, which was praised around the world as paving the way...

Kamal Zerfi has long run a junkyard in a no-man's land on the far edge of the Sahara desert. Then government soldiers came and things took a turn for the worse. Zerfi lives in a remote outpost of the Western Sahara region claimed by both Morocco and Polisario Front...

An Algerian appeals court Wednesday slashed to one year a 10-year jail term handed to opposition activist Yacine Mebarki, convicted of "offending Islam", his lawyer said. The court upheld rulings against Mebarki on charges including "offending the precepts of...