Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won the gold medal in the Paris Olympic Games, defeating China’s Yang Liu in the welterweight category after attacks on her gender. It is Algeria’s second gold medal.
In the Friday match at the Roland Garros Stadium, Khelif came out on top five rounds to zero, to instant applause. The boxer gained notoriety when far-right conspiracy theories saying that Khelif was transgender circulated after she beat Italian Angela Carini in an embarrassing defeat.
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
Russia is strengthening ties with eastern Libyan warlord General Haftar to disrupt European energy supplies and expand its influence in
France expressed growing alarm Friday over the detention of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria. The 75-year-old novelist, a vocal
A new report published by the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team for Somalia warns, that the Islamic State’s Somali branch,
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