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.
Algeria’s prosecutor has appealed the five-year prison sentence handed to Boualem Sansal, a French-Algerian writer convicted of undermining Algeria’
Italy will invest €20 million ($22 million) to support Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia in voluntary repatriation programs for irregular migrants,
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the Egyptian city of Arish next Tuesday, his office announced according to AFP. The
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a series of new tariffs under his 'Liberation Day' trade policy on
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