Sonia Dahmani, a Tunisian lawyer and media figure was sentenced to one year in prison over comments critical of the country, according to her family over the weekend.
Dahmani was arrested on May 11 after masked police raided the Tunisian national bar association, where she had sought refuge, and detained her following comments she had made on TV.
The comments in question were made during a program on the Carthage Plus
TV channel, while Dahmani was responding to another pundit's claim that
sub-Saharan migrants were seeking to settle in Tunisia.
Six people have died, and 28 others survived a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritania, marking one of the deadliest
The Amadeus Institute’s 12th edition of the Africa Attractiveness Index, placed Morocco in top spot, followed by South Africa,
A recent report by a Financial Times-owned data company reveals that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed $110 billion to
Libya’s eastern-based government in Benghazi, under the control of forces loyal to military leader Khalifa Haftar, has approved a
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