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Algeria: Reuters reporter expelled for covering Friday demonstrations

Algerian authorities have expelled Reuters’s reporter Saturday for covering a demonstration against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his regime staged by tens of thousands of Algerians. The reporter, Tarek Amara from Tunisia was detained and then flown to neighboring Tunisia after he covered the March 29 demonstration; one of the protests regularly staged since February 22 […]

Libya: US Boots Assist GNA Forces against ISIS

US military ground forces are helping the allied militiamen of the Government of National Accord (GNA) in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, the largely circulated Washington Post reports. The Pentagon announced last week it took military actions against IS at the request of the GNA, which has launched its anti-IS campaign since […]

Egypt-UK: British MPs Seek to visit Imprisoned Morsi

A panel of British lawmakers has submitted a request to visit former President Mohamed Morsi in detention since he was overthrown in 2013 by incumbent President who is seeking a second term in office. The group, made of the UK’s two leading parties, Conservative and Labor, reportedly wrote to Egypt’s UK ambassador to request a […]