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March 2, 2021

Algeria: political activist sentenced to 7 years in prison

A court in Algeria has sentenced a political activist to seven years in prison on charges of “incitement to terrorism”, according to local media. Clashes erupted between Algerian youth...

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March 2, 2021

Libya interim PM elected through bribery, UN inquiry says

Libya’s interim prime minister was elected after bribing participants to vote in his favour, a UN inquiry seen by Agence France Presse (AFP) has found. Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, 61, reportedly offered...

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March 2, 2021

Tunisia faces calls to investigate officials’ free vaccine from UAE

Tunisian MPs have called for an investigation into allegations that senior state officials received 1,000 free doses of the coronavirus vaccine from the UAE at the beginning of February....

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March 2, 2021

Anger in Egypt as government demands citizens register homes or lose electricity

Anger is growing in Egypt over amendments to a real estate law that stipulates property owners must register their property and those that don’t will not have access to...

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March 2, 2021

Barghouti and Qudwa give Abbas ultimatum for accepting electoral list

Senior Fatah leaders Marwan Barghouti and Nasser Al-Qudwa have given Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas until 5 March to accept their electoral list, Lebanon’s Al-Akbar reported on Monday. Abbas...

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March 2, 2021

French senator calls for quid pro quo for Algerian access to national archive

A French senator has called on the government to allow Algerian access to colonial archives in France, but only if there is reciprocal access for French researchers to Algeria’s...

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March 2, 2021

Egypt: Human rights defender Ezzat Ghoneim completes 3 years in pretrial detention

Lawyer and human rights defender Ezzat Ghoneim has just completed three years in pretrial detention in Egypt. Yesterday, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) said that Ezzat had...

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March 2, 2021

100 years of political division continues to affect Egypt

The political division in modern Egypt is nothing new. It has its roots in the national movement which grew from the 1919 revolution, or even before it. The division...

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March 2, 2021

Khashoggi fiancée: Saudi crown prince should be punished

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman should be punished “without delay”, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said yesterday. Speaking after a US intelligence report found that the de facto ruler...

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March 2, 2021

Ready to work with Netanyahu: Mansour Abbas splinters Arab vote in Israel

At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted...

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