Tunisia has sentenced four women to jail after convicting them of buying signatures of endorsement for a would-be challenger to President Kais Saied in upcoming elections, a court spokesman said Friday, as reported by AFP.
Candidate registration for the October 6 presidential election began on
Monday and next Tuesday.
Saied critics from across the political spectrum have complained that new,
tougher endorsement requirements are making it nearly impossible to get on the
ballot paper.
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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