foreign trade

Tunisia: Minister of Culture dismissed for flouting Covid-19 rules

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi dismissed the country’s Minister of Culture for disregarding recommended measures to confront covid-19 pandemic and tasked Tourism Minister Habib Ammar with serving as acting Culture Minister.   This decision was announced in a press release issued late on Monday night on the Prime Ministry’s Facebook page.   Walid Zidi, the […]

UN Expresses ‘Deep Shock’ at Scale of Executions in Egypt

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed its “deep shock” after 20 people were reported to have been executed in Egypt since last week. The OHCHR also raised concerns that due process and fair trial guarantees did not appear to have been followed. The UN statement cited the case of […]

Libya: Future National Army to be Regionalized, Kobler

Head of UNSMIL Wednesday indicated that the future Libyan army may be decentralized in a move to end divisions among regions failing to form a single army. The opposed regions, namely western, southern and eastern, may be given chances to form their own military forces, Martin Kobler told Associated Press. Libya has seen its national […]