UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is in Cairo to press local officials to release a jailed British Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner. Alaa Abdel Fattah was given a five-year sentence for "spreading false news" in a Facebook post on torture in Egypt's prisons and was arrested in September 2019. Speaking to the AFP, a British government official, on condition of anonymity, said "the UK remains committed to securing the release of Alaa Abdel Fattah and this will be a focus of the Foreign Secretary's meeting in Egypt today."
Algeria reiterated its support for African infrastructure development at the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI) meeting, chaired by South Africa’
Nine Moroccan authors and researchers were honored at the inaugural Doha Arabic Book Prize, which attracted over 1,200 submissions
Tunisian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle ten protected pink flamingos near the Algerian border, officials said Monday. The birds
Libyan authorities discovered two mass graves in Kufra, southeastern Libya, containing nearly 50 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants, the Associated Press
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