Russia’s private military contractor Wagner comes out of the shadows in Ukraine war
Mercenary group does not officially exist but is playing a more public role and openly recruiting in Russia Russia-Ukraine war – latest updates Three billboards...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
Tunisia referendum approves expansion of president’s powers – officials
Electoral commission – controlled by President Kais Saied – says 95% voted yes in constitutional referendum, which was boycotted by opposition groups Tunisian president Kais...
Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to whitewash human rights abuses
Naomi Klein and Caroline Lucas among signatories to letter voicing concerns over country’s hosting of climate summit A hundred days before the Cop27 summit is...
Tunisia president celebrates projected victory to give him almost total power
Kais Saied’s supporters fill central Tunis as some fear return of authoritarian rule in birthplace of Arab spring Tunisian president Kais Saied has celebrated the...
Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow
Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign...
Tunisians vote in referendum on handing president almost total power
Critics of Kais Saied fear he will rip up democracy that emerged from 2011 revolution Tunisians have begun voting in a referendum on a new...
Libyan PM makes alliance with ex-enemy to cement ceasefire
Prospect of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Khalifa Haftar burying differences may be welcomed by UN Libya’s prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has made an unexpected...
Sudan: scores of people killed in tribal clashes in Blue Nile state
Fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups broke out last week over the killing of a farmer The death toll from days of tribal...
UN urged to move Cop27 from Egypt over ‘LGBTQ+ torture’
US adviser to the White House and partner call on UN to move climate crisis summit over fears they would be targeted A White House...
Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade
Campaigners say sentence amounts to torture amid fears that country’s new regime is rolling back women’s rights A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to...
