Libya has successfully conducted over the weekend long-delayed municipal elections in seven north-western municipalities—Zawiya Markaz, Zawiya Wassat, Zawya Gharb, Zawya Chamal, Sabrata, Sormane, and Bir Ghnam—following a week-long postponement triggered by an attack on election commission facilities in Zawiya. The High National Election Commission confirmed the polls took place on Saturday, building on earlier phases […]
Mauritania president has appeared on his country’s state TV on Sunday after he was shot and wounded in what was described as a “friendly fire” by soldiers who were said did not recognize the presidential convoy as it passed by. During his TV appearance from hospital, president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz called Mauritanian people to […]
Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, two French journalists prosecuted in France for extortion and blackmail against Morocco’s King, were each sentenced to a 12-month prison sentence and a €10,000 fine. The two journalists were being sued for asking several million euros in exchange for not publishing a book on the Kingdom in 2015. In November […]
