Moroccan justice on Monday sentenced an internet user to three years in prison on appeal for insulting the king, after publications on social networks in 2020 criticizing the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel.
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Senegalese opponent Karim Wade took an important step towards the 2024 presidential election on Monday by posting the deposit required to run, despite persistent doubts about his candidacy, AFP learned from his party.
The Tusk Conservation Awards was held in London on Monday, with Britain's Prince William in attendance.
The Sudanese army and paramilitaries exchanged shells on Monday from opposite banks of the Nile in the capital, Khartoum residents reported, in the seventh month of a war whose atrocities have been denounced by NGOs.
A truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended by two days, mediator Qatar said hours before the pause was due to end Tuesday, as more hostages were freed from Gaza in exchange for the release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
"Eighty-six employees were standing in the lift, eleven lost their lives and all the others were transferred to hospitals," a company spokesman told AFP, adding that some of them were seriously injured.
Niger's ruling junta has signed a decree revoking a controversial 2015 law that was brought in to slow the smuggling of migrants travelling from African countries through a key migration route in the country en route to Europe, according to a governmen...
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As Togo prepares for this electoral process, which is expected to unfold against a backdrop of political tension, the nation faces the challenge of ensuring a transparent and inclusive democratic exercise.
Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Monday firmly denied in court all allegations he faces of abusing his power and amassing a huge fortune.
