Preliminary results showed President Kais Saied won a second term in the Tunisian election with 90.69% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday.
Tunisia's President Kais Saied, Tunisian Presidency
Preliminary results showed President Kais Saied won a second term in the Tunisian election with 90.69% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday.
The turnout was 28.8% in Sunday's vote in which Saied faced two election rivals: his former ally turned critic, Chaab Party leader Zouhair Maghzaoui; and Ayachi Zammel, who was jailed last month.
By Tarek Amara
Libya's eastern security authority has repatriated 602 migrants to Chad as part of a campaign focusing on the "protection of homeland and border," a spokesperson for the interior ministry's agency tasked with tackling illegal migration said.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday postponed until November 18 a retrial of the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, a prominent independent news site, on charges of publishing false news and running an unlicensed website, the site said.
The UN human rights office condemned Egypt this week for arresting the entire Matsaddash fact-checking newsroom (six journalists) on terrorism charges and ordering the closure of independent site Mada Masr.
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