The Mauritanian government was rebuked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for its failure to abolish entirely slavery practices, which remain widespread in the West African country. A heated exchange took place between the Mauritanian government and independent national and international NGO’s calling for abolishing the abhorrent slavery practice in Mauritania as part […]
Tunisian interior ministry Tuesday announced the arrest of 11 people who attacked security establishments in central Sidi Bouzid region, marked by several days of violent protests against economic hardship. Inhabitants of the town of Jelma launched protests Saturday, a day after Abdelwaheb Hablani, 25, set himself on fire in protest against poverty and hard economic […]
The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected Kenya to fill an African seat on the Security Council in 2021-2022. Kenya will replace South Africa in January. The seat was viewed by another candidate, Djibouti, which lost in a second round of vote. In a departure from previous years when African countries used to choose a […]
