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Tunisia: Justice rejects demand for release of presidential candidate; Spouse  launches campaign trail

The wife of the Tunisian candidate in custody for money laundering has launched the campaign of her husband whose demand for release has been rejected. Members of Heart of Tunisia, the party of media mogul Nabil Karoui, joined Monday Salwa Smaoui in the city of Gafsa, some 369 km Southwest of Tunis, to launch the […]

Sudan: TMC to retain top leadership of the country in interim administration

The Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) Thursday said it will retain “sovereign authority only”, while civilians will hold the post of Prime Minister and all other ministerial portfolios. The announcement was made by TMC’s spokesman Shams El Din Kabbashi as the military council, the uprising leading group, Sudan Professional Association (SPA) and the opposition are […]

HRW denounces imprisonment of Tunisians for debt default

Hundreds of Tunisians are in jail for writing checks they were unable to pay in a debt imprisonment practice that destroys households and businesses in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch warned. In a 41-page report, HRW outlined the defaults of the archaic legislation on checks with insufficient funds, adding that sending insolvent people […]