Tunisia: Pre-trial Detainees’ Number Unacceptable, Human Rights League

The Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) Saturday criticized the growing number of the pre-trial detainees, put at 13,000, in the country’s prisons which it says violates human rights as it far surpasses the number of prisoners serving their sentences (9,600.) The League pointed out in a report that given the growing number of pre-trail detainees, […]

Algeria Trades Oil for Cuban Doctors

Algeria will receive more doctors from Cuba in return for suppling the communist run island with crude oil, which seeks to offset a steep decline in oil shipments from its key ally Venezuela. An agreement was signed between the two countries providing for three years of Algerian oil supplies, the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina […]

AU sounds the alarm over Covid-19 fatality rate in Africa

The African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC) has sounded the alarm over case-fatality rate of the coronavirus on the continent as it stands at 2.5%, compared to 2.2% worldwide. Underlining that the second wave of the epidemic is proving more deadly in Africa, the Africa-CDC announced on Thursday that the case-fatality rate […]