A criminal Court in Nouakchott has sentenced two opposition lawmakers, Marieme Cheikh Dieng and Ghamou Achour, to four years in prison after convicting them of insulting President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and inciting unrest. The two MPs had been charged last month with “attacking the symbols of the state” and calling for protests, following social media […]
Three well-known public figures including a former top army commander have called Algerians to unite and withstand President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s intention to run for 2019 elections despite “his inability to run the country’s affairs”. For Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi, a former foreign minister and presidential candidate in 1999, Ali Yahia Abdenour, a lawyer and former minister […]
Tunisian Interior ministry Thursday announced the arrest of a prominent member of global terror group al Qaeda preparing terror attacks in the North African country. The ministry did not provide details on the name of the al Qaeda official, the place of his arrest but indicated that the “dangerous terrorist” was planning terror attacks in […]
