Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition coalition has slammed a string of “repressive” arrests mainly targeting critics of President Kais Saied, including members of the progressive Islamic Ennahdha movement. Police in the North African country — birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings — have arrested...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s progressive Islamic mainstream opposition movement Ennahda has condemned what it called the systematic abuse of critics in the North African country amid a months-long political crisis. Tunisian security forces have detained Ennahda leader and former Justice Minister Noureddine Bhiri and director of Mosaique Rad...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu, 74, has been declared as the next president-elect of Bangladesh by the country’s Election Commission. Speaking to reporters in the capital Dhaka, Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that the ruling Awami League (AL) party nominee Shahabuddin was elected unopposed as the 22nd presid...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — AFP Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups have called for their reinstatement into two key regional blocs following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The top diplomats of Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso said in a joint statement that they had [&...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s president has resorted to intimidating the nation’s people, the head of a major labor union in the country said on Friday. “President Kais Saied chose the path of intimidating the people and calling them, directly or indirectly, to fight,” Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi said a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives voted along party lines Thursday to remove one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress from her seat on the influential Foreign Affairs Committee. The 218-211 vote saw all Democrats vote in opposition to removing Ilhan Omar from the panel. Nearly all of the chamber’s [&hel...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition coalition urged a united front against President Kais Saied after just 11.3 percent of Tunisians voted Sunday in a second-round poll for a toothless parliament in the politically divided nation. “Almost 90 percent of Tunisian voters ignored this piece of theatre and refused to be invo...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The United States has announced a restriction of visas to Nigerians weeks ahead of general elections in the African nation. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement: “To support Nigeria’s upcoming elections, today I am announcing visa restrictions for those involved in undermining democracy in ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, has called for restoring democracy in the country. In an interview, Ghannouchi termed the positions of the European Union, the US and Canada on Tunisia’s democratic transition as “positive”. “We do not wait for foreign armies to support democracy in Tunisia,” Gh...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Police in Pakistan have arrested Fawad Chaudhry, the country’s former information minister and senior leader of a key opposition party, for allegedly threatening the country’s election authorities, officials and family members confirmed Wednesday. Chaudhry, who served as information minister from 2018 to 20...
