Sonia Dahmani, a Tunisian lawyer and media figure was sentenced to one year in prison over comments critical of the country, according to her family over the weekend.
Dahmani was arrested on May 11 after masked police raided the Tunisian national bar association, where she had sought refuge, and detained her following comments she had made on TV.
The comments in question were made during a program on the Carthage Plus
TV channel, while Dahmani was responding to another pundit's claim that
sub-Saharan migrants were seeking to settle in Tunisia.
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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