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
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.
Sudan's army has detained a former senior Islamist official from ousted strongman Omar al-Bashir's era who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, officials from his party said.
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