Ibrahim El Salih lost his job and his daughter and grew increasing belligerent in his social media posts. Then he was arrested for “encouraging terrorist acts”.
Ibrahim El Salih used to work as an inspector for the Protection of Territory at his local municipality in Kukes, a small town in northern Albania. A father of two, he was known as a practicing Muslim and a supporter of the opposition Democratic Party.
Frontex and the European Commission sidelined their own data protection watchdogs in pursuing a much-criticised expansion of “intrusive” data collection from migrants and refugees to feed into Europol’s vast criminal databases, BIRN can reveal.
Drivers should be aware of the reality that every time they add 16 gallons of fuel to their vehicle, that $1.30 a gallon is contributing $20 per tank to government programs. Where is the accountability for these programs?
The European Union’s treats Western Balkans states as a wicked stepmother. While this has not significantly changed even after the Russian invasion on Ukraine, it did triggered a fundamental debate on whether the EU wants at all to admit the remaining six Western Balkan countries (Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo) to full-fledged membership. If the EU would have an intent to admit the listed countries to its membership, the question to be asked is how it could do that. Namely, 19 years have passed since the adoption of the Thessaloniki agenda for the Western Balkans, which envisaged membership of the Western Balkan countries in the EU. Other than the promises about European perspective of the respective countries, nothing concrete has happened with respect to their membership in the EU.
As Dominic Raab and Michael Gove rule themselves out, we look at the main contenders and the five camps they fall into within the Tory Party
A Kenyan High Court has frozen the account of Flutterwave accusing Africa’s biggest fintech firm of money laundering.
The Nigerian firm is one of seven entities suspected to have been used as conduits for money laundering in the guise of providing merchant services, according to authorities in Kenya.
An Interpol co-ordinated police operation targeting illicit firearms in Central and West Africa saw 120 arrests and seizure of firearms, gold, drugs, fake medication, wildlife products and cash.
Operation Trigger VIII over six days in June, involved saw 520 law enforcement officials targeting 35 hotspots across Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
C’est le paradoxe libyen, la population s’appauvrit dans le pays le plus riche du continent en réserves de pétrole, avec 48,4 milliards de barils dans ses sols. Depuis le 1er juillet, les manifestations se multiplient.
La révolte gronde dans tout le pays. Le 1er juillet, des manifestants ont attaqué et mis le feu au Parlement de Tobrouk, perçu par la population comme un des principaux responsables de la crise politique et économique du pays. Depuis, plusieurs centres municipaux ont été la cible d’incendies. Des barricades éphémères ont surgit dans les rues de Khoms, Sabha, Zawiyah, al-Bayda, Misrata et Tripoli.
Les opérations de lutte contre le djihadisme se font désormais plus discrètement qu’avant, en laissant l’armée nigérienne prendre les commandes
C’est à Niamey qu’une base des militaires de l’opération française Barkhane est établie après la fin officielle de cette mission dans le nord du Mali. Plus d’un millier d’hommes donc doivent conduire les opérations anti-djihadistes aux côtés de l’armée nigérienne, surtout dans les zones frontalières du Mali ou la zone des trois frontières.
Réunis sous les auspices de l’Angolais João Lourenço, Félix Tshisekedi et Paul Kagame se sont rencontrés à Luanda, ce 6 juillet, sur fond de tensions croissantes dans l’Est de la RDC.
Les présidents rwandais, Paul Kagame, et congolais, Félix Tshisekedi, se sont retrouvés mercredi 6 juillet à Luanda et se sont mis d’accord sur un « processus de désescalade », selon les termes de la présidence congolaise. Une annonce qui survient alors que les tensions étaient vives depuis plusieurs semaines entre Kinshasa et Kigali, sur fond de violences dans l’est de la RDC.