In a letter dated Monday, the president of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed El Menfi, called on Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah to quickly appoint a defense minister. The post has been vacant since the Government was announced in March due to its sensitive nature. Both opposing camps want to take the post. […]
Algeria has been named by the U.S. State Department among the world worst violators of religious freedom. It is the only country in North Africa included in the U.S. black-list. “I have designated Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros and Vietnam as Special Watch List countries for engaging in or tolerating severe violations of […]
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged International Criminal Court (ICC) to prioritize crimes committed in the country’s volatile eastern provinces, as a third round of peace talks has ended with no reported progress toward settling conflict. DRC’s Justice minister Rose Mutombo, who took part on 6 December in the meeting of the Assembly of […]
