Kigali (AFP) - There will be no spur of the moment Twitter rants by Rwanda's presidential candidates, as the election commission has ruled that it must pre-approve all of their social media updates. We are asking (candidates) to present us their messages, their drafts to verify that they are not against the law, electoral commission head Kalis ...
Bamako (AFP) - A threat by radical Islamists in northeast Mali to punish an unmarried couple with death by stoning finally was not carried out, local officials told AFP on Monday. Officials had told AFP on May 17 that the couple had been stoned to death in public the previous day in the Taghlit valley, in the remote Kidal region. It would hav ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisian security forces have killed a leader of the Islamic State group who was plotting attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, authorities said on Monday. The interior ministry did not identify the suspect, but said he was a leading member of IS and dangerous and was killed in an operation Sunday night by the Natio ...
Rabat (AFP) - Authorities in Morocco on Monday arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's northern Rif region for months, officials said. A government source and another official from the interior ministry said Nasser Zefzafi, who had been on the run since Friday, had been taken into custody. Further deta ...
Rabat (AFP) - Authorities in Morocco have arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's northern Rif region for six months, officials said on Monday. Nasser Zefzafi, who had been on the run since Friday, was detained on Monday, said a government source and another official from the interior ministry. Further ...
Al-Hoceima (Morocco) (AFP) - Protesters have rallied for a third night running in Morocco's city of Al-Hoceima, in a northern region of the country where there has been growing social unrest. An AFP journalist saw several hundred mainly young demonstrators gathered in two neighbourhoods of the city on Sunday night, chanting The state is corrupt ...
Rabat (AFP) - Adventurer, Orientalist, spy: the remarkable story of Spanish explorer Ali Bey al-Abbassi is to be told on the silver screen for the first time, two centuries after his death. Born in Catalonia in 1767, Domingo Badia y Leblich posed as an exiled Arab prince and became one of the first Europeans to set foot in Mecca. Yet despite ...
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