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Tunisia: UGTT says targeted by authorities for refusing to endorse ongoing national dialogue

Noureddine Taboubi, Secretary General of Tunisia’s powerful labor union UGTT, revealed Thursday that the organization is being targeted by the government after it returned down President Kais Saied’s proposal to be part of the national dialogue expected to discuss a new Constitution for a new Republic. Taboubi did not reveal further details about the harassment […]

Egypt witnessing increase in divorces

The divorce rate in Egypt is on the increase as the country registered 245,777 last year, up from 22,036 cases the previous year according to data presented by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. The increase in the number of divorces represents 14.7 per cent. The CAPMAS’s […]

Middle East Institute highlights reforms ushered in by King Mohammed VI

The Washington-based Middle East Institute has published this Tuesday an analysis on the 22-year rule of King Mohammed VI that was marked by ambitious economic and social policies at home, and promotion of a stable foreign policy abroad.   The author of the analysis Intissar Fakir, an MEI senior fellow and director of the program […]