Two women died in shark attack while swimming in the Egyptian Red Sea, the country’s Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Authorities discovered the body of a Romanian tourist in her 40s hours after an attack that left a 68-year-old Austrian woman dead, two sources told Reuters According to the …
Read More »Tunisia: President Saied unveils new constitutional project
Tunisian President Kais Saied released details of the new constitutional draft that would significantly expand his powers, local media reported. Written by a commission whose members he himself appointed, the draft Constitution is cut, unsurprisingly, for Kaïs Saïed. Under the proposals, most political power would be exercised by the president. …
Read More »Spain: PM Sanchez clarifies migrant deaths comments – reports
Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, tempered comments he made last week following the deaths of at least 23 migrants on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, the BBC reported. He told a Spanish online newspaper (La Sexta) that he had not seen pictures of corpses at …
Read More »AU and UN call for immediate investigation into migrants death in Morocco
The UN and AU called for an investigation into the deaths of 23 people, after hundreds of migrants tried to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco. According to Moroccan authorities, a number of people were crushed to death in a stampede on Friday after a section of border …
Read More »Tunisia: UGTT calls for new general strike
Tunisia’s most powerful union, the UGTT, has called for a second general strike to protest the government’s economic policies, media reported. The UGTT has about a million members, and its last nationwide strike earlier this month brought the north African country to a standstill. The Tunisian government is preparing to …
Read More »Egypt: men arrested for singing in a mosque
Authorities in Egypt arrested three men after one of them was allegedly filmed singing and dancing in a mosque, according to the AFP news agency. The clip later went viral. In the video, the accused man is singing along to what locals call a mahraganat song. It is a type …
Read More »Algeria: English language replaces French from the primary cycle
The English language will replace the French language from the primary cycle in Algeria, the presidency announced in a press release on Sunday. This is the result of the work of the Council of Ministers which took place under the leadership of the Head of State, Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The decision …
Read More »Tunisia strike will cancel international flights – union
The powerful Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) union said all international flights to and from the country will be canceled on Thursday as part of a nationwide strike to protest President Kais Saied’s policies. The UGTT trade union is demanding salary rises for employees in the public sector after a …
Read More »Israel and Egypt to export gas to Europe
Egypt, Israel and the European Union on Wednesday signed a natural gas deal in Cairo as Europe scrambles to cobble together an energy strategy to replace the Russian supplies it has relied on for decades, media reported. “This will contribute to our energy security. And we are building infrastructure fit …
Read More »Asylum seekers say Rwanda better than Libya, but they will try for Europe again
Asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from dirty and dangerous Libyan detention centers say their new quarters are a huge improvement, but they still want to reach Europe, raising questions about the deterrent effect of the plan transfer of migrants to the East African country, Reuters reported. The first flight of …
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