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UN experts and Special Rapporteurs have accused the Algerian regime of “politically instrumentalizing terrorism” to suppress public freedoms. In a correspondence addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), these UN experts and rapporteurs accused the Algerian regime of politically instrumentalizing “terrorism” to repress and prohibit public freedoms. According […]
Over 9.8 million new coronavirus cases have been reported in Africa, which is accounting for 3.3 pc of the worldwide confirmed cases, according to latest data released by Africa Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). More than 229,101 people died of covid-19 in the continent wherein CFR (Case Fatality Ratio) is higher than […]
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has tested positive for Covid-19, the official news agency announced Tuesday. “Medical examinations carried out on Monday by Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, after contracting a cold, showed a positive result and a contamination with Covid-19 with mild symptoms,” the Ami agency said. Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, […]
Researchers from Morocco, Israel, and France have discovered remnants of a small Jewish community in the mountains of Morocco. The ruins of the community’s synagogue in the small village of Tamanart – located on the outskirts of the Sahara desert – were found while conducting a preliminary survey of Jewish sites in the area and […]
Former US ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray has urged the President Kais Saied not to take a leaf out of ex- autocratic Ben Ali’s book, noting that the incumbent Tunisian leader has a disdain for democratic institutions and disregard for the economy. “In August, I warned that Saied seemed to be following in Ben Ali’s […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has fired several governors including Tunis governor Chedly Bouallègue, in a new sweeping move by the leader of the North African country. A statement issued Thursday on the Facebook account of the office of the president also indicated that Kamel Fekih, a current senior official at the ministry of finance and […]
Libya’s interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah chaired a government council meeting on Thursday to mark his official return to office, after taking time off to run in the aborted presidential election. The political situation is “critical,” Dbeibah said, as Libya has failed to hold a presidential election scheduled for Dec. 24 – the first by […]
Morocco expects Omicron to be the dominating Covid-19 variant in the few upcoming days and has urged citizens to take a third dose to reinforce collective immunity, health minister Khalid Ait Taleb said. Speaking to AL Oula TV channel, Ait Taleb said that Omicron can spread five times faster than Delta but its lethality rate […]
Moroccan researcher Mohamed Zoubairi is among the winners of the Sharjah Award for Plastic Art’s Critical Research, announced Wednesday the management of this 12th edition. During this cultural competition on plastic arts and scenography, Zoubairi ranked second with his work titled “Plastic arts and scenography, from accompaniment to identification”. The Iraqi researcher Kazem Nouir won […]
Algerians from all walks of life continued to suffer in 2021 from acute shortage of bread, milk, cooking oil, potatoes, sugar, pasta, oxygen for covid-19 patients and ICU beds, while their rulers are squandering the country’s petrodollars on military expenditure. Such explosive social situation with deepening political crisis is fueling Hirak pro-democracy protestors demanding a […]