Series: 1272 issue: week ending 30 December 2022

Morocco: French national seeks UN help to fight extradition to US from MoroccoF

The lawyer of a Frenchman held in Morocco and fighting extradition to the United States for alleged hacking told AFP Wednesday he was appealing to a UN body to intervene. Philippe Ohayon, who represents 21-year-old Sebastien Raoult, said a prison guard had shown his client papers suggesting his extradition was imminent. Ohayon said he had […]

Algeria makes baby steps to stimulate tourism sector, but just in the SaharaF

Algeria will allow foreign tourists heading to its vast desert south to obtain visas on arrival, part of efforts to “promote tourism in the Sahara”, the interior ministry announced Wednesday. In a statement, it said that “foreigners heading to the south of the country” who have tours booked with licenced local companies could obtain visas […]

Tunisian president fights back against critics after disastrous election resultsF

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Wednesday played down massive abstention in this month’s parliamentary elections and slammed critics who have accused him of dragging the country towards dictatorship. Just 11.2 percent of registered voters took part in the December 17 polls for a neutered parliament, which capped Saied’s overhaul of the political system since his […]

Tunisian regime seeks to strip judges of immunity before charging them of terrorismF

Tunisian prosecutors asked the top judicial body to strip 13 judges of immunity so they can be tried on terror charges, their lawyer said Wednesday, describing the case as “purely political”. The move comes nearly seven months after President Kais Saied sacked 57 judges, accusing them of corruption and blocking enquiries into two left-wing political […]

Sahel: Three dead in Niger military helicopter crashF

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Morocco sentences for migrants over Melilla tragedy ‘unjust’: rights groupF

A Moroccan rights group on Saturday slammed “unjust” punishments given to migrants sentenced over a mass attempted crossing into the Spanish enclave of Melilla that left at least 23 dead. Around 2,000 people, many of them Sudanese, stormed the frontier on June 24 in an attempt to reach Spanish territory across one of the European […]

Egypt: Part of stadium in south Cairo collapses, 27 injuredF

At least 27 people were injured on Saturday when part of a sports stadium south of Cairo collapsed during a basketball match, Egypt’s health ministry said. Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said “27 people were injured, some with fractures and bleeding,” adding that “most were non-life-threatening injuries”. The Egyptian basketball federation suspended the match between […]

Tunisia deports migrants, rights group calls move “repressive and inhumane”F

A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a “repressive and inhumane” government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp. The 25 men from Egypt, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan had sought asylum in Tunisia after fleeing violence in neighbouring Libya in 2011, but their requests were denied, said […]