Tunisian President Kais Saied set the presidential election date for Oct. 6, 2024, the presidency said in a statement early on Wednesday.
Kais Saied © TSP
Tunisian President Kais Saied set the presidential election date for Oct. 6, 2024, the presidency said in a statement early on Wednesday.
Kais Saied has taken control of the country's main institutions. A new-look dictatorship much more stringent than that of President Ben Ali.
Reporting by Tarek Amara
Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, 84, began a hunger strike, joining two prominent politicians who are protesting what they call “unjust imprisonment,” lawyers said on Saturday, marking the latest escalation in a standoff with President Kais Saied.
Morocco's royal palace on Tuesday declared October 31 starting next year as a national holiday marking the adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution backing the North African country's autonomy plan for Western Sahara.
Sudan’s pro-army government has called on the international community to take urgent and concrete action against the United Arab Emirates, which it accuses of supplying weapons and fighters to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group locked in a devastating civil war with the national army since April 2023.
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