[PR Newswire]Mogadishu, Somalia -For Somali women, the public perception of the country and the hardship they endure remains sadly justified...Somalia is still one of the worst places in the world to b...

[UN News]While noting the progress made to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, the United Nations political chief today said that a sustained long-term solution must include the presence of effecti...

[PR Newswire]London -UK deeply concerned about political instability in Somalia. Urges all parties to resolve differences through political process....

[SPS]El Aaiun -Saharawi political prisoners, currently languishing in Moroccan prisons, on Wednesday launched a 3-day alarming hunger strike in protest of being brought to courts that lack the basic re...

[Sudan Tribune]Juba -At least 13 South Sudanese political parties have petitioned president Salva Kiir over his government's decision to restrict their representatives from attending the peace talks pe...

[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -The Egyptian Popular Current, a socialist movement founded by leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, was turned into a political party on Saturday......

(Source: ANHRI - Arabic Network for Human Rights Information) The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expresses disapproval of the attack on Ammar Khaled Al-Tuhami, a student at Faculty...

[Egypt Online]Egypt's Interim President Adly Mansour issued on Thursday the law of exercising political rights, said Presidential Spokesman Ihab Badawy....

Jennifer Lazuta DAKAR ? More than 200 West African elected officials and civil society leaders have converged on Dakar this week for a conference on female leadership. As parity laws bring more and mo...

[UN News]Benghazi, Libya -Citing aerial attacks, use of heavy weaponry and civilian casualties in Benghazi and elsewhere in eastern Libya, the United Nations today called for an end to the bloodshed an...