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Egypt sentences 17 to death over 2017 church bombings

Egypt sentences 17 to death over 2017 church bombings

An Egyptian military court today sentenced 17 people to death for their involvement in bombing churches in 2016 and 2017, state news agency MENA reported. MENA also said that 19 other people were handed life prison terms for the attacks which struck churches in Cairo, the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta city […]

Morocco dismantles 183 terrorist cells, foils 361 acts of vandalism

Morocco dismantles 183 terrorist cells, foils 361 acts of vandalism

Abdelhak Al Khayam, head of Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), a security apparatus specialised in terrorist crimes inquiry, revealed that since 2002 Morocco has dismantled 183 terrorist cells that sought to carry out terrorist acts in the country, and prevented 361 acts of vandalism. In an interview with the official news agency, MAP […]

Sisi: 2011 Egyptian revolution was ‘wrong cure to wrong diagnosis’

Sisi: 2011 Egyptian revolution was ‘wrong cure to wrong diagnosis’

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has described the 2011 Egyptian revolution as “the wrong cure to the wrong diagnosis”, according to the Egypt Independent. Speaking at the 29th Armed Forces Educational Symposium, Al-Sisi argued that the Arab Spring that toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, had achieved insufficient change due to a lack of understanding among […]

Cholera – 59 Confirmed, 26 Negative Cases Among 172 Patients Hospitalized Since August 7th

Cholera – 59 Confirmed, 26 Negative Cases Among 172 Patients Hospitalized Since August 7th

Algiers — The Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform underlined that out of the 172 hospitalized patients since August 7th, a total of 59 cases of cholera have been confirmed and 26 cases were negative until 27 August 2018, according to a ministerial communiqué. The distribution of confirmed cases by province are as follows: […]

Outcry inMorocco after ‘girl is raped, tattooed with swastikas’

Outcry inMorocco after ‘girl is raped, tattooed with swastikas’

Anger has erupted in Morocco after local media reported a 17-year-old girl was abducted, tortured and gang-raped by a criminal gang, whose members also forcibly tattooed her body. More than 12,000 people had signed a petition by early Monday demanding the government of King Mohammed VI provide the girl with urgent medical and psychological care […]

Dozens of cases of cholera confirmed in Algeria

Dozens of cases of cholera confirmed in Algeria

Dozens of cases of cholera have been reported in Algiers since mid-August. Health authorities, who spoke initially of gastroenteritis, are accused of trying to hide the information from the public. Forty-one cases have been confirmed in Algiers and its surrounding areas, announced the health minister in a press conference on August 23. One of the […]

Militias force nearly 2,000 to leave Libyan capital’s largest shelter for internally-displaced: UNHCR

Militias force nearly 2,000 to leave Libyan capital’s largest shelter for internally-displaced: UNHCR

Libyan militias have forced nearly 2,000 people from an ethnic minority likely targeted for their alleged links to the former Gadaffi Government, to flee long-established shelters in the capital Tripoli, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. In an appeal for the human rights of families originally from the city of Tawergha to be […]

‘Absolute Confidence’ Youth Will Bring Change – Senior U.S. Africa Official Tibor Nagy

‘Absolute Confidence’ Youth Will Bring Change – Senior U.S. Africa Official Tibor Nagy

Washington, DC — In one of his first public engagements as the Trump administration’s top State Department person on Africa policy, Tibor Nagy addressed the African Diaspora Youth Leaders Summit. The gathering joined Mandela Washington Fellows – a centerpiece of the Young African Leaders Initiative (Yali) – with counterparts from the Diaspora. Yali was launched […]

Viral Video Lands Liverpool Striker Mohamed Salah in Hot Water

Viral Video Lands Liverpool Striker Mohamed Salah in Hot Water

Liverpool FC has referred a video allegedly depicting star player Mohamed Salah texting while driving to the Merseyside Police, The Independent reports. In the video, which was spread on Twitter, Salah appears to be using his phone while in his white Mercedes-Benz and surrounded by fans, whom he pointedly ignores. One fan can be heard […]

Gaddafi’s widow files complaint to UN over son’s detention

Gaddafi’s widow files complaint to UN over son’s detention

The widow of former Libyan president, Muammar Gaddafi, has filed a complaint to the Geneva-based Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against the imprisonment of her son, Saadi, despite his acquittal by a Libyan appeals court in a murder case. The Gaddafi family’s lawyer Khaled Zaidi told the Alarabiya.net that […]

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