Egypt: Elections only after Ramadan, Minister

Parliamentary election will not be held until after July if the comments of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ibrahim El-Heneidy are anything to go by. The Minister also heads the government-appointed drafting committee tasked with reviewing the electoral law after the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled that some articles were unconstitutional. The news could come as a […]

Tunisia: Official doubles down on position, rules out apologies for racist statement

Tunisia’s top diplomat Nabil Ammar Tuesday said the North African country will not apologize for shocking statements, branded “racist” by many, made by President Kais Saied against Sub-Saharan migrants. President Kais Saied sparked an outcry last week after he made extremely hateful and racist remarks against African migrants who arrive in his country on their […]

New York Court indicts three international drug traffickers arrested in Morocco

The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, which investigates the most sensitive and high-profile cases in the U.S., indicted three international drug traffickers, who had been arrested in April by Morocco’s National Brigade of Judicial Police (BNPJ) in Marrakech, for their links to criminal networks of international trafficking of fentanyl, methamphetamine, […]