Countries Nobel laureates urge Egypt to release jailed dissident Cairo – Fifteen Nobel laureates called on COP27 host Egypt to release jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah, in an... Read more 3 Nov, 2022
Countries Moroccan woman on hunger strike after jailed for ‘insulting Islam’: family Rabat – A Moroccan woman sentenced to two years’ jail for “insulting Islam” in a Facebook post is almost... Read more 2 Nov, 2022
Countries Jailed Egypt dissident to launch full hunger strike ahead of COP27 Cairo – Over 200 days into a partial hunger strike, jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah will fully refrain from... Read more 1 Nov, 2022
Business Ghana president seeks to reassure over economic ‘crisis’ Accra – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has sought to reassure the country his government can manage an economic “crisis”... Read more 31 Oct, 2022
Countries Family appeals for release of Tunisian woman jailed in Saudi for retweet Tunis – The sister of a Tunisian woman jailed by Saudi Arabia for retweeting a post about Lebanon’s Hezbollah... Read more 29 Oct, 2022
Arts and Leisure Equatorial Guinea rapper freed after six weeks in custody Malabo – Leoncio Pisco Eko, a rapper and critic of corruption and rights abuses in hardline Equatorial Guinea, has... Read more 29 Oct, 2022
Countries Rights group says hundreds massacred in Mali by Islamic State jihadists Niamey – Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this... Read more 28 Oct, 2022
World UN ‘deeply concerned’ by Russia’s ‘LGBTQ propaganda’ law Geneva – The United Nations said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” by Russian lawmakers voting to toughen up... Read more 28 Oct, 2022
World Same-sex marriage now legal across Mexico Mexico City – Same-sex marriage has become legal throughout Mexico after the state of Tamaulipas became the last in the... Read more 27 Oct, 2022
Countries Egypt orders release of jailed activist Zyad el-Elaimy Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011... Read more 25 Oct, 2022