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Unemployed youth clash with security forces in southeastern Algeria

The province of El Oued in southeastern Algeria was rocked by violent clashes between disenchanted youth demanding jobs and better living conditions and Algerian security forces. The clashes take place in a climate of uncertainty in Algeria where the government failed to use the oil mantra to develop the long-neglected south. The protesters in the […]

Tunisia sentences four youth to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking

The Tunis court of first instance sentenced Tuesday four young men to 20 years in prison for forming a drug trafficking network in the capital, Tunisie Numerique reports.   The defendants, according to the investigative media, brought into the country the drug from a country in the Maghreb region, through the North-East governorates. They had […]

Libya has little chance of holding elections this year – Fathi Bashagha

Fathi Bashagha, one of Libya’s rival Prime Ministers, has said that the oil-rich African country has little chance of holding elections this year. Without a unified government “there will be no elections and chaos will continue”, he told Bloomberg in an interview. Fathi Bashagha, who is engaged in a stand-off over the premiership with Abdul […]