French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Algeria to release Boualem Sansal, an 80-year-old writer sentenced to five years in prison for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity, Reuters reports. Sansal, detained last year after comments on colonial land distributions, has received widespread support, including from Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and novelist Salman Rushdie. Macron seeks humanitarian intervention from Algerian authorities for Sansal, who has also been hospitalized during his detention.
Ukraine has proposed training Mauritanian troops as part of its broader strategy to counter Russia’s growing footprint in West
The United Nations’ human rights office is calling on Egypt and Libya to release any remaining activists detained while trying
The U.S. Supreme Court has approved a Trump administration policy that allows migrants to be deported to so-called “third
Egypt has sharply criticized Israel’s war on Iran, fearing a weakened Tehran could embolden Israeli dominance in the Middle
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