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  • Tunisia fake news decree threatens free speech
    Editor's PicksPoliticsTunisia

    Tunisia’s decree won’t stop fake news. It will stop free speech

    By Ines El Jaibi
    October 27, 2022
    President Saied is now threatening another of Tunisia’s hardest won freedoms. Following Tunisia’s revolution in 2011, which heralded uprisings across the Arab world, the ...
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  • Protesters in Tunisia demonstrate before the country's first elections after the fall of Ben Ali in 2011. Credit: Ezequiel Scagnetti.
    PoliticsTop storyTunisia

    Why Tunisians must boycott the vote on Saied’s self-written constitution

    By Mohamed Khallouli
    July 21, 2022
    Even the head of the constitutional committee warns the document could lead to a “disgraceful dictatorial regime” if passed in the 25 July referendum. ...
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  • A man in Benghazi holds a picture of King Idris in the midst of the Libyan Uprising in 2011. Credit: Maher27777
    Editor's PicksLibyaPolitics

    Libya: A country in need of a king?

    By Ashraf Boudouara
    July 12, 2022
    Restoring a symbolic monarch may sound anachronistic, but after a decade of division and chaos, it makes perfect sense to many Libyans. More than ...
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  • Tunisia's President Kais Saied meeting with then US Defense Secretary Mark Esper at Carthage Palace, Tunisia, in September 2020. Credit: DoD/Lisa Ferdinando.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsTunisia

    Is Tunisia’s democracy slipping away?

    By Raed Ben Maaouia
    June 16, 2022
    President Saied has been running the country unilaterally for almost a year. The July referendum will further strengthen his rule without resistance. Those sincerely ...
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  • Rasha Mekky with her adopted son Mostafa. Credit: Rasha Mekky.
    Editor's PicksEgyptFellowsSociety

    “People said it’s haram”: Happy mums show reality of adoption in Egypt

    By Lara Reffat
    May 25, 2022
    Individuals telling their stories and shifts in popular culture are gradually eroding the stigma around Kafala adoption. When Rasha Mekky reached her mid-20s, she ...
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  • Esraa, a customer of the bike lessons service Dosy, on the bike of a motorbike in Cairo, Egypt. Credit: Dosy.
    Editor's PicksEgyptFellowsSociety

    Egypt’s patriarchy says women don’t ride bikes. These women disagree.

    By Lara Reffat
    February 16, 2022
    Despite facing harassment, more and more women and girls are defying sexist attitudes and riding bikes and motorbikes around Cairo. Heba Attia first started ...
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  • African climate protesters at COP26 in Glasgow, UK.
    Climate crisisEditor's PicksEgypt

    2022 is Africa’s year to lead the world on climate change

    By Mohamed Adow
    January 12, 2022
    The COP27 climate summit on African soil will be the continent’s chance to put the needs of vulnerable nations above the interests of rich ...
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  • Editor's PicksEgyptRadical Activism in Africa

    Egypt’s sexual revolutionaries tackling the tyranny within

    By Mona Eltahawy
    October 20, 2021
    Meet the women and queer people sparking a revolution against the patriarchy through Arabic-language online platforms and sex toys. This article is part of ...
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  • Tunisia's President Kais Saied (left) meeting with the US Defence Secretary in September 2020. Credit: DoD/Lisa Ferdinando.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsTunisia

    Don’t let Tunisia’s democracy slip

    By Raed Ben Maaouia
    August 30, 2021
    President Saied’s sacking of the government may be popular, but what Tunisia needs is to strengthen its democracy, not dismantle it. On 17 December ...
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  • Three young men joke with each other to pass the time near the reception site in Assamaka, Niger, soon after being deported from Algeria. Because of COVID-19, all recently returned migrants are held here for a quarantine period of 14 days before being transported to Agadez. Credit: Mariama Diallo/MSF.
    AlgeriaNigerSociety

    “The guards had no compassion”: The migrants abandoned in Niger’s desert

    By MSF
    May 4, 2021
    Thousands of migrants are being seized in Algeria, abused and then left at Point Zero, a spot in the middle of the desert, often ...
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