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Algeria: Hirak is back, divide between people and power persists

Algerians took to the streets on Monday Feb.22 22 to mark the second anniversary of Hirak, the popular movement that led to the fall of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and to tell the current government that nothing has changed with respect to Bouteflika’s government which ruled the country for two decades.   Thousands of Algerians […]

Tunisia: 10 people sentenced to 48 years in prison on terrorism charges

A court in capital Tunis Wednesday sentenced 10 people, including five women, to 48 years in prison after they were convicted for forming a terror group.   The defendants were arrested in 2017 in several governorates in the north of the country.   They admitted the formation of the terror cell and allegiance to the […]

UN on damage control mission after de Mistura’s Sahara partition blunder

The UN Secretary General’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq downplayed the resurrection by UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara Sataffan de Mistura of the partition plan, that was categorically rejected by Morocco twenty years ago. De Mistura has said in a briefing to the Security Council last year that he raised the concept of […]