Prosecutors in Algeria have requested a 10-year prison sentence for Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been detained since November upon his arrival back at Algiers airport. Sansal is accused of undermining the country's territorial integrity, and according to local media reports, a verdict against the writer, is due on March 27. Sansal writes in French, and his case has received widespread attention in France; this while relations between France and its former colony Algeria have deteriorated significantly in recent months.
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Mali, alongside Niger and Burkina Faso, has officially withdrawn from the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), according to Morocco
David Yambio, a Sudanese activist living in Italy and a former migrant detainee in Libya, has raised alarms with the
During a visit to India by Egypt's investment minister Hassan El Khatib, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign
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