As many as 50 migrants who recently attempted to reach Spain via boat from West Africa drowned, according to the migrant rights organization Walking Borders, whose new report also found that over 10,457 migrants lost their lives last year while attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach Canary Islands. Walking Borders reported on Thursday […]
President Kais Saied urged lawmakers to end the independence of the monetary policy in the country by adopting a law that would allow the treasury to borrow directly from the central bank. The move is the latest in a series of moves to concentrate all powers in his firm grip, after he sapped the democratic […]
An Egyptian woman has been elected lately head of the Liberal Dostour party in a country where women still do not play a major political role in a patriarchal and Muslim-dominated society. She is called Mrs. Hala Shokrallah. She is a Christian and apparently she has broken the rules and become the Chief of her […]
