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January 23, 2025

In March 2011, popular discontent with the Ba’athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region. Estimates vary, but between 350,000 and 606,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Syrian civil war since 2011. The Assad government […]

January 20, 2025

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests since the presidential election results were announced on Oct. 24, declaring Frelimo candidate Daniel Chapo as the outright winner, with the opposition planning what it says will be the biggest protests across the capital Maputo. The October elections saw the little-known Chapo, candidate of the […]

January 20, 2025

On 06 October Kais Saied has been re-elected president of Tunisia with 90.69% of votes cast, although low turnout reflected widespread discontent in the cradle of the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings. Three years after Saied made a sweeping power grab, rights groups fear his re-election will entrench his grip on the only democracy to emerge […]

April 24, 2024

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Long before October 7, the conflict between Israel and Palestinians were on going but at another scale. Even after 2005 when Gaza disengaged from the enclave there were five Israeli wars. The Israeli authorities said that their policy (before October 7) was to “mow the lawn” – attempts to degrade Hamas’s military capabilities by indiscriminately […]

September 15, 2023

On September 10, Libya was hit by a catastrophic storm which wiped out numerous houses in Cyrenaica. Thousands of people died, and the devastating effects of the calamity will remain alive in the lives of Libyans for decades. The most affected Libyan cities were Benghazi, Bayda and Derna. The worst was Derna, which it was […]

June 14, 2023

The Senegalese authorities have announced that it had opened investigations regarding the broadcasting of videos showing armed people in civilian clothes, accused of violently attacking demonstrators during the recent protests. The Interior Minister, Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome, has declared that an investigation is pending following the recent videos that emerged on the social media portraying […]

June 10, 2023

During Friday, the residents of Zawiya has said that the Libyan Ministry of Defense have used drones in order to bomb a fuel smuggling site in the city. The local social media posts have shown pictures of columns of smoke rising into the sky form the south of Zawiya near the Bir Muammar […]

May 30, 2023

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Recently, a Libyan court has condemned to death 23 jihadists convicted of fighting with the Islamic State group in the north African country. This was the first group of 320 alleged IS jihadists to be tried and sentenced. IS had captured the central coast city of Sirte in 2015, setting up a stronghold before being […]

May 13, 2023

The heavy clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have continued, contributing to a devastating humanitarian situation in and around Sudan. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured, while attacks on health facilities – at least 28 so far (WHO) – have severely weakened the health system’s capacity to […]

April 28, 2023

LYON, France – A counter-terrorism operation coordinated by INTERPOL with the support of AFRIPOL has enabled front line police across Central and Eastern Africa to arrest 14 terror suspects and seize explosives. The month-long (March – 23) operation, code named Tripartite Spider, was organized to support the ability of national Counter-Terrorism (CT) investigation teams to […]