N’Djamena, Chad – (AFP): Six opposition leaders arrested after violent anti-French protests in N’Djamena were on Monday handed one-year suspended sentences for disturbing public order. They were also fined 10 million CFA francs, or about 15,000 euros. Those charged included Max Loalngar, coordinator for Wakit Tamma, Chad̵...
ANKARA – Over 77% of voters in Kazakhstan have approved constitutional amendments that seek a new governance model according to the Foreign Ministry. As many as 77.18 % of the voters in the June 5 referendum “approved the proposed amendments, paving the way for changing 33, or one third articles of the document initially adopted [&...
SFAX CITY, Tunisia – The head of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, has said that the end of the “coup” is imminent. “I salute the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) for refusing to participate in the farce national dialogue,” Ghannouchi told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting in the southeastern city of Sfa...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): The man charged by President Kais Saied with rewriting Tunisia’s constitution said Monday he would present a draft stripped of any reference to Islam in order to fight Islamist parties. The first article of a constitution adopted three years after the North African country’s 2011 revolution says it is ...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – An Algerian court on Monday sentenced the brother of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to eight years in prison for corruption, according to the official Algeria Press Service. Said Bouteflika was convicted of issuing secret funding for a presidential election campaign that was cancelled in 2019. The Sidi M’ha...
NUR SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – The voter turnout on Sunday for Kazakhstan’s constitutional referendum reached 68%. Polling stations across the country closed at 8.00 p.m. local time (1400GMT) and at 9.00 p.m. local time in western parts of the country, with over 11.7 million voters eligible to cast a ballot. More than 8.3 million pe...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes, after passing a new law strengthening his grip on the judiciary. Saied, who has steadily extended his powers since he sacked the government and suspended parliament last July, issued a decree late on Wednesday allowing...
Khartoum, Sudan – (AFP): Hundreds of Sudanese protesters rallied in front of the United Nations mission in Khartoum to call for its dismissal. The protests were endorsed by groups that have criticized efforts by the UN to resolve the political crisis in Sudan since last year’s military coup. The rallies came as the UN Security Coun...
ANKARA (AA) – For the first time in the country’s history, Australia’s Cabinet will feature two Muslim members, local media reported. Anne Aly and Ed Husic, both Muslim members of parliament, were sworn into the Cabinet on Wednesday, SBS News reported. Husic will be minister for industry and science while Aly will serve as minister […]...
BEIRUT – Veteran politician Nabih Berri has been re-elected Lebanon’s parliament speaker for the seventh time in a row, holding onto his record as the longest-serving head of a legislative assembly in the Arab world. Berri has maintained the position thanks to the 1989 Taif Agreement, which established a power-sharing deal among the country’s ...
