Tunisia court jails potential presidential candidates and bars them from upcoming election
Critics say the move is aimed at targeting serious challengers to the current Tunisan president, Kais Saied. A Tunisian court has sentenced a number of...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
More than 30 killed in terrorist attack on popular Mogadishu beach
At least 63 wounded after suicide bomber and gunmen target busy beachfront in Somali capital At least 32 people have been killed and 63 injured...
Egyptian mummy with screaming expression ‘may have died in agony’, say researchers
Archaeologists say wide open mouth of woman who died about 3,500 years ago may be caused by rare, immediate form of rigor mortis She looks...
Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp
UN-backed early warning network confirms people in the Darfur city of El Fasher are starving to death Famine has been declared in a Sudanese displacement...
Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies
Detention of reporters for covering sensitive news is having a ‘chilling’ effect on free media in Somalia, say rights groups The arrest of a journalist...
Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report
RSF militia, mired in civil war for 15 months, accused of sexual violence, including rape and torture, in Khartoum Gunmen from a notorious militia roamed...
‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war
Exclusive: Discovery of Emirati passports in wreckage suggest covert boots on the ground, despite Gulf state’s denials Passports recovered from battlefields in Sudan suggest the...
At least 150 people missing after boat capsizes off coast of Mauritania
Boat full of people hoping to get to Europe overturns and at least 15 known to have died, UN migration agency says At least 15...
Women forced to have sex with soldiers for food in Sudanese city
Victims tell Guardian about widespread practice in war-torn Omdurman Women struggling to survive in the war-torn Sudanese city of Omdurman say they are being forced...
War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns
Vaccine misinformation has added to crisis of collapsed healthcare and poor nutrition, Unicef and WHO report Conflicts have hampered efforts to vaccinate children across the...
