Reporters without Borders (RSF) accused Tunisian authorities of harassing journalists covering the anti-austerity protests that have been simmering across Tunisia. In a statement, RSF condemned the Tunisian police for brief detention and interrogation of one reporter and the confisca-tion of another’s phone. Mathieu Galtier, a French reporter for the Paris-based daily Libération, received an unexpected […]
Tunisia’s Anti-terrorism commission, CNLCT, announced Monday it froze the assets of three Tunisians who allegedly funded terrorism activities, reports say. The CNLCT told state-run news agency TAP that the three individuals, whose names have not been disclosed, physically financed terrorism activities. Tunisia has set up the CNLCT to prevent terrorism in a country that witnessed […]
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to help flush out members of the al-Shabaab jihadist group he describes as “bedbugs,” as hundreds of people in the country’s capital Mogadishu attended a government-organized rally to protest against the group’s bloody insurgency. Sheikh Mohamud declared “all-out” war against Islamist fighters shortly after he came to office […]
