Surgeon on trial on France’s largest child sexual abuse case
A surgeon will go on trial in France’s largest-ever child sexual abuse case, with accusations of the rape and sexual...
Crime
No casualties after explosion outside Russian consulate
On February 24th, an incendiary device exploded outside the Russian consulate in Marseille, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion...
Morocco arrests 12 suspected jihadists in “highly dangerous plot”
On February 19th, Moroccan authorities revealed 12 suspects had been arrested in a "highly dangerous terror plot" linked to the...
Morocco: Drug smuggling tunnel found below Spanish enclave
Spanish police have discovered a drug smuggling tunnel running from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta as part of...
Dozens of illegal miners killed in Mali
Dozens of people, most of which were female, have been killed after the collapse of an illegal gold mine in...
Libyan minister survives assassination attempt in Tripoli
Libya’s cabinet affairs minister, Adel Juma, has been injured in a failed assassination attempt in Tripoli on February 12th. According...
Libya: Top minister survives assassination attempt
One of Libyan Prime Minister Dheibah's closest advisors has survived an assassination attempt in Tripoli, Libya, and is in stable...
Ten endangered flamingos rescued from Tunisian smugglers
Ten endangered flamingos have been rescued after smugglers were caught attempting to traffic them out of Tunisia, reports the Tunisian...
Jurist says alleged war criminal shouldn’t have been freed
An Italian jurist has showed that the release of alleged Libyan war criminal al-Masri was either a misunderstanding or a...
Tunisia: Ten endangered flamingos rescued from smugglers
Ten endangered flamingos have been rescued as smugglers attempted to traffic them out of Tunisia. According to the BBC on...
25 civilians killed in convoy ambush, according to Mali army
On February 7th, 25 civilian goldminers were killed in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern city of...
Bodies of migrants discovered buried in mass graves in Libya
On February 7th, Libyan authorities uncovered around 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert city of...
Tunisia’s opposition party denounces “political” jailing of leader
Tunisia’s opposition party Ennahda has lambasted the sentencing of its political leader Rached Ghannouchi to an additional 22 years of...
Italy forced to free wanted Libyan officer over “ICC mistakes”
Italy has said they were forced to free a Libyan officer wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court...
Italy minister says ICC arrest warrant “marked by inaccuracies”
An Italian official has said the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for the now-released Libyan prison officer...
