Social & Human Affairs Bound

Djimet Wiche: Tensions eased in Chad on Friday following a day of unprecedented violence at protests that left around 50 people dead across the country. Chad's government had on Thursday announced an overnight curfew after the deadly clashes  between police and...

Tunisian authorities said on Friday they had intercepted more than 800 people making clandestine attempts to reach Italy by boat in a single night earlier this week. "A total of 813 migrants, including 473 from sub-Saharan Africa" were caught off the North African...

Thousands of Tunisian bakers staged a strike Wednesday to demand that the state pay up overdue subsidies, but suspended the action in the evening after reaching a deal with the government. The national bakery owners' union said some 3,200 of their businesses had...

The bodies of eight migrants, thought to be Tunisians missing for two weeks, were recovered Monday off the coast of the north African country, the Red Crescent said. "Sailors on Monday morning found eight bodies of migrants off Zarzis whose boat was thought to have...