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Libya: Saadi Gaddafi gets first hearing in Tripoli court

Libya has held its first Gaddafi trial on Sunday after Saadi Gaddafi appeared in a court in southern Tripoli. After being detained since March 2014 following his extradition from Niger, Saadi is charged with the murder of a football player and unlawful imprisonment. The trial didn’t last for long. According to Sadiq Al-Sour, the chief […]

Algeria Increases Fuel Prices as Crisis Bites

Battered by a sharp fall in hydrocarbon revenues, Algeria resorted to lifting subsidies on key commodities such as gasoline and diesel in a bid to shore up state finances. The Algerian parliament has taken the unpopular decision of cutting gasoline and diesel subsidies for the third as part of the 2018 budget in an attempt […]

When RSF flouts women rights and despises independence of Moroccan judiciary

Reporters without Borders (RSF) has issued a very biased statement, to say the least, in which it arrogantly put itself in the place of the Moroccan justice and castigated a women complaining of sexual assault by journalist Omar Radi, who is also facing espionage charges. In an appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence […]