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 …
Read more from the source : Orient XXI
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 …
Read more from the source : Friends of Europe
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…
Read more from the source : National Democratic Institute
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…
Read more from the source : Tutto Oggi
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…
Read more from the source : E-International relations
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…
Read more from the source : Amnesty International
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…
Read more from the source : Le Journal International
Tags : Algerie, LGBT, gay, homosexuality,
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…
Read more from the source : Bilaterals.org
Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Swiss,
France has returned the skulls of 24 Algerian resistance fighters who died while opposing French occupation of the North African nation in the 19th century. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced the move on…
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Tags : Algeria, France, skulls, Memory,
The imperatives of Western unity and the need to sustain Western influence in the uncommitted areas of the world make the Algerian question one of the pivotal issues in world politics and in the balance of world power…
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Tags : Algeria, John F. Kennedy, colonialism,