Politics Bound

Cairo, July 4, 2020 - Egypt's top appeals court upheld Saturday a 15-year prison sentence for a leading figure of the country's 2011 uprising, a judicial source told AFP. Ahmed Douma has been jailed since 2013 on charges of clashing with security forces during a...

Editor's note: Also to be released are Samir Benlarbi et Slimane Hamitouche Algiers, July 2, 2020 - Two key figures in Algeria's protest movement, Karim Tabbou and Amira Bouraoui, are to be freed provisionally from prison Thursday, a lawyer and rights groups said....

General Salou Djibo, former head of Niger's military junta, will contest the 2020 presidential election after being adopted on Sunday as the candidate for the Peace-Justice-Progress (PJP) party. He accepted the candidacy at a ceremony before some 5,000 people at the...

Bamako, June 25, 2020 (By Amaury Hauchard and Laurent Lozano) - Mali's government is facing a rising wave of protests, a development which is alarming the international community keen to prevent the fragile West African state from sliding into chaos. Following are key...