AFCON 2019

Blinken unveils US-Africa strategy

The United States will not dictate Africa’s choices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his visit to South Africa on Monday, August 8, despite having sought support from the continent’s 54 countries in efforts to isolate Russia over its Ukraine invasion. Blinken is in South Africa as part of his African tour that […]

Rights groups warn of more civil society crackdown in Algeria

Eight leading human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have called on Algerian authorities to withdraw a proposed draft law on associations, warning that it would further erode the right to freedom of association and entrench government control over civil society. In a joint statement, the groups criticized the draft bill intended to replace the […]

Tunisia: ISIS-enthusiast terror cell busted in Hammamet

Tunisia security forces nabbed in the city of Hammamet, Nabeul province, members of a terror cell, pledging allegiance to the Islamic state group (ISIS). Security forces raided the house of the ringleader, a Tunisian man in his twenties, following an alert. “The raid was launched following intelligence that the suspect threatened some security forces with […]