Tunisian judges have launched a week-long strike to protest President Kais Saied’s “interference” in the judiciary, days after he sacked 57 of their colleagues, accusing them of corruption and protecting “terrorists”. The president sacked last Thursday 57 judges, under a Presidential Decree issued in the Official Gazette on June 1, after amending the Decree on […]
Muhammad Husain, the director of state own oil Indonesian company, PT Pertamina, has announced the company will be exploiting oil from Algeria in the next few months. This could allow the company to increase its reserve by 100 million barrels per day and additional crude oil output of 23,000 barrels per day. Negotiations are still […]
Despite international outcry against slavery across the globe, Mauritanian authorities continue their crackdown on anti-slavery activists with the arrest recently of abolitionist Biram Ould Abeid who was interrogated by authorities following three days of demonstrations led by the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA). Analysts consider his arrest as a move by the government to […]
