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Thousands of desperate migrants bound for Europe have perished in the Mediterranean Sea. In one impoverished Egyptian town, families fear that 15 of their sons are among the dead. The Nile delta cotton-growing town of Dahmasha already feels like a ghost town. Hundreds...

Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists have been targeted by a campaign of judicial harassment, worsening Algeria’s repressive strategy of ending political dissent and its human rights...

Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedom in the North African country.  Drareni, 40, has been in custody since March and was sentenced in August to three years...

Protesters in Libya's second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration controlled by strongman Khalifa Haftar, a security source said Sunday. "In the early hours of Sunday, a group of demonstrators attacked the cabinet...