Following an intensification of conflict in southern Tripoli, Tarhuna and Sirt in June 2020, nearly 28,000 people were forced to flee their homes. The majority of those displaced moved to the east of the country, particularly to Benghazi (6,550 people) and Ejdabia (6,050 people), while…
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Tags : Libya, situation report, relief,
The political controversies between the Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda and its opponents have only known a short lull with the coronavirus crisis. And the foreign policy initiatives taken by the party’s leader Rached Ghannouchi have …
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Tags : Tunisia, Gulf, Media, Ennahdha,
Few images have captured Libya’s crisis in a time of COVID-19 better than that taken by Egyptian-Canadian photojournalist Amru Salahuddien in late March. It shows a fighter on the Tripoli frontline, his gun poised. His face is obscured not with a balaclava but a blue surgical mask to guard …
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Tags : Libya, covid 19, coronavirus,
The 2019 election cycle changed the face of Tunisian politics, ushering in many non-affiliated candidates and political outsiders into parliament, including the election of political outsider President Kaïs Saïed. By electing a new class of political leaders, Tunisian voters expressed their discontent with the status quo and their desire to empower new voices who could…
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Tags : Tunisia, economy,
The Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela said Malta and Libya recognize the need for more protection of the borders of both Eastern Europe and the central Mediterranean, southern Libya and more areas in both contintents. The Maltese Prime Minister was meeting the Libyan Prime Minister…
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Tags : Libya, migration, Malta,
The recent developments in Libya have been characterised by various breakdowns in negotiations, as competing visions about the future of governance, power, and intrastate relations unfold. Nine years after the 2011 toppling of the Qaddafi regime, the political transition in Libya is still at…
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Tags : Libya, post-revolution, challenges,
The Moroccan authorities’ attacks on Amnesty International’s credibility, and the orchestrated smear campaign against the Amnesty Morocco office in Rabat, shows how intolerant they have become of scrutiny and legitimate criticism…
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Tags : Western Sahara, human rights, Morocco,
In Algeria, the law can punish ‘any person guilty of an act of homosexuality’ with a prison term of two months to two years and a fine of 500 to 2,000 dinars (4 to 14 euros). Indeed, homosexuality is considered a crime, incompatible with…
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Tags : Algerie, LGBT, gay, homosexuality,
While the end of slavery has been the subject of much research, its history is so diverse and complex that many of its dimensions remain understudied. M’hamed Oualdi‘s new project contributes to this body of research by seeking to uncover the transnational dimensions of this history in North Africa through an examination of the writings of slaves for this region from mid-18th century to the 1930s. The European Research Council selected this very innovative project in a highly competitive process. Interview.
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Tags : Maghreb, slavery, North Africa,
The three biggest Swiss retailers – Coop, Migros and Denner – have banished agricultural products grown in the last colony in Africa from their shelves. That is evident from the Swiss foreign trade statistics which show no imports from the territory for 2019. Migros and Denner have both confirmed to Swiss NGO terre des hommes schweiz that they have…
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Swiss,