Moroccan activists call for de-criminalizing extramarital relationships

Moroccan activists launched on social media a campaign to de-penalize extra-marital consensual sex after a woman in Tetuan was handed a one-month jail term. The woman was a victim of revenge porn after her video went viral on Moroccan social media triggering her arrest and indictment by virtue of Article 490 of the penal code […]

Somalia: deadly ISIS attack on Puntland military base kills dozens

A deadly assault by the Islamic State (ISIS) targeted a Puntland military base in Somalia’s Bari region, resulting in at least 100 fatalities among both the militants and soldiers. The attack, which reportedly took place in the Togga Jacel area of the Cal Miskaad mountains in Puntland’s Bari region, saw ISIS militants using suicide car […]

Algerian News Agency caught in the act of fabricating stories

The lies of the Algerian news agency APS know no bounds. This mouthpiece of the military regime was forced to see in the mirror its own falsehood when the UN Human Rights issued a denial decrying the lack of professionalism by the agency and asked it to withdraw a story. It came as the last […]