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Algerian government attacks pro-democracy activistsF

Algiers, June 19, 2020 (By Amal Belalloufi, with Philippe Agret in Tunis) - Algeria has intensified a crackdown on an anti-government protest movement, targeting social media users in a bid to stop demonstrations resuming once coronavirus restrictions end. Weekly...

Libya: 100 migrants rescued off the coast of ZawyiaF

Rome, June 17, 2020 - The German NGO Sea Watch rescued around 100 migrants off of Libya on Wednesday, saying the Libyan coastguard would have turned them back to shore if the humanitarian group had not intervened. The dinghy was found 29 nautical miles off Zawyia, 40...

Egypt holds doctors in prison for speaking out on health crisisF

Amnesty International demanded Thursday that Egypt stop its "harassment and intimidation" of frontline medics for speaking out during the coronavirus pandemic. The rights group documented the cases of eight healthcare workers, including six doctors and two...

Sahel: Rights group accuses Niger of ‘war crime’ in the execution of alleged Boko Haram fightersF

Abidjan, June 12, 2020 - Human Rights Watch on Friday described as a "war crime" the summary execution of two alleged Boko Haram fighters in southeastern Niger last month. The human rights organisation investigated images circulating on social media of two men being...

Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein free at last after spending four years in Egyptian prisonF

Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein free at last after spending four years in Egyptian prisonF

Feb 5, 2021

By Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha - Egypt has freed a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, a security source...

The Amazigh people of Libya struggling for recognitionF

The Amazigh people of Libya struggling for recognitionF

Feb 4, 2021

Amid increasing violence between two rival factions, the country’s biggest indigenous people get set for an uncertain...

Tunisia: As the world decriminalizes use of cannabis, Tunisian law remains stubbornly intransigentF

Tunisia: As the world decriminalizes use of cannabis, Tunisian law remains stubbornly intransigentF

Feb 4, 2021

Thirty years' jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era...

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