A Tunisian appeals court commuted the prison sentence of a TV broadcaster from one year to eight months on Friday, this according to reporting by AFP.
Borhen Bssais was initially handed a 12-month sentence under a decree
punishing "spreading false information" and "defaming others or damaging their
reputation".
Bssais was arrested on May 11 and charged with "attacking President Kais
Saied through radio broadcasts and statements between 2019 and 2022".
Speaking on the sidelines of the 23rd Islamic Financial Stability Forum, held this week in Rabat, Ghiath Shabsigh, Sec-Gen of
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have formed the Alliance of Agricultural Seed Producers of the Sahel (APSA-Sahel) to reduce reliance
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have advanced into the strategic “triangle” border area with Libya and Egypt, heightening regional
This week the British Government announced that it would not support a plan by the X-Links Morocco-UK Power Project to
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