Mauritania
AfDB grants $30 million facility to Mauritania’s GBM
The African Development Bank Group has approved a $30 million trade finance facility for the Générale de Banque de Mauritanie
The trial of 40 prominent Tunisian opposition figures, including politicians, lawyers, and activists, is set to begins Tuesday, AFP reports. Lawyers for the defendants say the accusations include "plotting against the state security" and "belonging to a terrorist group". Critics condemn the charges as politically motivated. President Kais Saied, who seized sweeping powers in 2021, faces growing accusations of suppressing dissent. Rights groups condemn arbitrary detentions, while authorities deny political persecution.
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Mauritania
AfDB grants $30 million facility to Mauritania’s GBM
The African Development Bank Group has approved a $30 million trade finance facility for the Générale de Banque de Mauritanie
Tunisia
Tunisian opposition party calls for judicial independence, return to constitutional life
In a statement released Wednesday, the National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s largest opposition coalition, said that the recent “show trials”
Algeria
Algeria jails historian who questioned Amazigh culture
An Algerian court has sentenced historian Mohamed Amine Belghit to five years in prison for offending national symbols, his lawyer
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's PM says mega dam on the Nile 'now complete'
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has