Tunisian Justice Minister Monday sounded the alarm over the “catastrophic” conditions of inmates in the country’s prisons. “Detention centers in Tunisia are extremely overpopulated,” Ghazi Jeribi told a parliament committee on Monday. Over 20,000 people have been locked up in the country’s few prisons, exceeding the capacities of these centers. The overpopulation has been estimated […]
The Ethiopian army has captured an undisclosed number of suspected Islamic State members operating in the country, local media reported. General Berhanu Jula, deputy chief of staff and director of military operations in the Ethiopian armed forces, confirmed the arrests but did not specify how many extremists were nabbed. Berhanu said that security forces continue […]
Libyan Forces battling the Islamic State in Libya claimed today to have captured the headquarters of the terrorist group in the coastal city of Sirte following a military campaign that started in June. A spokesman in the Forces media office, Rida Issa, said the Libyan forces took control of a compound used by the terrorist […]
