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Tunisia: Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to run for September snap Presidential elections

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed will be the candidate of the recently created Tahya Tounes party at the presidential elections to take place on September 15 after the death of head of state Beiji Caid Essebsi who passed away last week. The Party’s Secretary General, Selim Azzabi, made the announcement Wednesday, few days after Tunisians […]

US urges Algeria to halt using terrorism charges to quell peaceful dissent

The US delegation to the UN Human Rights Council called on Algeria to abrogate the amendments it brought to its penal code in 2021 and under which many peaceful dissidents are in jail on bogus terrorism charges. In the wake of the mass pro-democracy protests in 2019, the newly recycled military leadership in Algeria has […]

Russia-Printed Libyan Dinar Delivered to Tobruk-Established Central Bank

Reports have emerged that the central bank established by the Tobruk-based government would be receiving 200 million Libyan Dinar worth of bank notes printed in Russia despite the contestations of Libya’s Central Bank, based in Tripoli. The media office at the Lebrag airbase confirmed the arrival of the money. The new notes are said to […]