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Tunisia: Electoral body trims candidacies, detains only nearly quarter

The Tunisian electoral body, ISIE, announced Wednesday it retained only 26 bids out of the 97 received for September 15 snap presidential elections, pending appeals. The ISIE said at a press conference in capital Tunis the 26 are those that fulfilled requirements. The country’s heavy weights among whom Prime Minister Youssef Chahed touted as frontrunner, […]

Guineans back a controversial new constitution

Guinea’s electoral body said March 27 that Guinea has voted to back a contested new constitution. Independent National Electoral Commission president, Amadou Salifou Kebe, told reporters that 91.59 percent of ballots were in favor of adopting the new constitution, while 8.41 percent were against. Turnout was 61 percent, he added, saying that these were provisional […]

Egypt: Bomb attack kills at least 16 people in Cairo

Masked men attacked a fish restaurant in Cairo early on Friday killing at least 16 people and wounding 5 others, reports say. The attack occurred early on Friday morning in Cairo’s Agouza district in Giza. Police and reporters at the scene say three masked men threw Molotov cocktail bomb at the fish restaurant that is […]