A Tunisian court released government critic and former presidential hopeful Safi Said from custody Thursday after he was arrested for crossing into Algeria "illegally", Tunisian media reported.
Said, 70, a vocal opponent of Tunisian President Kais Saied, had planned to
challenge the incumbent in an October 6 election but has dropped out, calling
it a "bad farce".
In a statement posted on social media on August 9, he complained about
"inequality of opportunity, high obstacles and a lack of clarity in the rules"
for would-be candidates.
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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