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Egypt: Sissi pardons Aljazeera reporters

2015 Eid celebration will remain historic for two Aljazeera reporters and other prominent prisoners as they have been pardoned by the Egyptian President on the eve of the Muslim sacrifice celebration. Al-Sissi ordered the release of 100 prisoners among them the Aljazeera’s Fahmy and Baher. The two reporters’ sentences were confirmed by a Cairo court […]

Tunisia sends 125 troops to bolster UN peace keepers in CAR

Tunisia has sent 125 military forces to join UN peace keeping efforts in Central African Republic (CAR), a country dogged by violence. President Kais Saied green-lighted the Tunisian mission made of troops from the military aviation.   The Tunisian troops, to join the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic (known by its French […]

France mulls ending visa-free entry for Algerian diplomats, officials

France is considering imposing visa requirements on holders of Algerian diplomatic passport, amid a brewing crisis that prompted French officials to vow to retaliate against what they considered as a series of Algerian disrespect, which included arbitrary arrests of a dual-national novelist, instigation of diaspora, and refusal to admit nationals expelled from France for spreading […]