The Mauritanian government was rebuked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for its failure to abolish entirely slavery practices, which remain widespread in the West African country. A heated exchange took place between the Mauritanian government and independent national and international NGO’s calling for abolishing the abhorrent slavery practice in Mauritania as part […]
Morocco’s opposition blocked the passage of the draft of the Finance Law in the Parliament, which caused a major upheaval. According to the leader of the Parliament’s Istiqlal Party, Mohamed Ansari, the finance act did not deliver a clear economic and social policy. For instance, the number of jobs that should be created by the […]
Kenyan presidential elections constituted “a travesty and a blatant disregard of the Constitution,” Kenyan opposition figure Raila Odinga said and added that he would challenge the results of the close presidential election with “all legal options available to us“. Kenya was calm on Tuesday (16 August), a day after Deputy President William Ruto was officially […]
