A court in Algiers said Monday that three rejected presidential candidates were placed under "judicial supervision" while another 68 people, including elected officials, were temporarily detained as part of an investigation into electoral fraud, this according to reporting by AFP.
They are suspected of being involved in "signature sales" for the upcoming
presidential election set for September 7. Candidates are required to gather
large numbers of them to be eligible to stand.
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
France expressed growing alarm Friday over the detention of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria. The 75-year-old novelist, a vocal
Libya’s acting head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taher Al-Baour, met with the Dutch Ambassador to Tripoli, Joost
For the second year in a row Libya is on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) list of the top
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