Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was handed a 20-month prison term for charges related to forging voter endorsements Wednesday but will still stand in next month's election, his lawyer told AFP.
Zammel, a former lawmaker and head of a small liberal party, is one of only
two candidates approved by Tunisia's electoral authority ISIE to challenge
President Kais Saied in the October 6 poll.
One of Zammel's lawyers, Abdessatar Messaoudi, said the defence team "will
appeal".
Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) that controls eastern Libya, recently held talks with Russian President Vladimir
Egypt has decided not to appoint a new ambassador to Israel until the war in Gaza comes to an end,
France’s development agency, AFD, plans to invest €150 million in Morocco’s southern provinces, including the disputed territory of
The USS Mount Whitney, the U.S. Sixth Fleet’s command ship, has docked in Nouakchott, underscoring Washington’s commitment
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