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Egypt: As it prepares for major climate summit, Egypt criticized for “growing repression of dissent”F

Egyptian authorities "have continued to stifle freedoms" in the year since launching a national human rights strategy, Amnesty International said Wednesday, six weeks before Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched the rights...

Sahel: More than 150 dead in Niger rainy season floodsF

Severe floods in Niger after months of heavy downpours have killed 159 people, authorities said Monday, marking one of the deadliest rainy seasons in history for a normally arid state.  The landlocked Sahel state's annual rainy season typically runs between June and...

Tunisia: President issues decree that punishes authors of “fake news” with up to 5 years in prisonF

Tunisia's President Kais Saied issued a decree Friday that punishes the dissemination of "fake news" with up to five years in prison, rising to 10 when such crimes are deemed to target top officials. The decree, published in the Official Journal, defines the offence...

Migrations: Number of Tunisians fleeing their country to Italy up 11% this yearF

More than 13,000 clandestine Tunisian migrants have reached Italy by sea since the start of the year, almost a fifth of them minors, a Tunisian rights group said on Tuesday. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) said more than 500 clandestine...

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