Policewomen standing outside the entrance to al-Qanatir women’s prison on 27 December 2020 (AFP/File photo) By Middle East Eye Instead of investigating a report of her son’s assault in prison, ‘Egyptian authorities are persecuting the messenger’, Human Rights Watch says A leading human rights group has urged the Egyptian government to release a mother who

Photo: Credit AP/Kamran Jebreili, File. By JON GAMBRELL A Kenyan who wrote compelling dispatches under a pseudonym about the challenges of living as a low-wage worker in Qatar and advocated for their rights has been detained under unclear circumstances in the energy-rich nation. The arrest of Malcolm Bidali draws renewed attention on the limits of

Spanish Guardia Civil officers try to stop people from Morocco swimming and entering into the Spanish territory at the border of Morocco and Spain, at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday, May 17, 2021. Authorities in Spain say that around 1,000 Moroccan migrants have crossed into Spanish territory (Antonio Sempere/Europa Press via AP) By

Bill Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board in 2020. He said he was doing so to focus on philanthropy. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters By The Guardian Board members reportedly felt his presence was inappropriate during the investigation into a romantic relationship last year Board members at Microsoft decided in 2020 it was not appropriate for

Photo: Credit AP /Mulugeta Ayene, File Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has issued a warning against countries are interfering in his country’s affairs, according to the state news agency ENA. Abiy said he would not allow delays in the general election to be used for other agendas, which he said were being pushed by powerful

Nyerere (middle) By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza. Some democratic processes are used for retrogressive power retention schemes. Where we think bourgeois democracy will serve the interests of people, it dismally fails to do so – creating this huge heap of crises of expectations from which the masses fail to recuperate from. Liberal democracy, as developed by

Chinese Navy Yangzhou 578 Type 054A frigate is one of the ships of the 38th escort fleet. (Picture source People Daily China) By Navy Recognition According to information released by the Chinese Ministry of Defense on May 15, 2021, the 38th escort fleet of the Chinese Navy on Saturday, May 15, 2021, left a military

Photo/Somali Times Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been inaugurated as the country’s new president. The inauguration ceremony will be attended by various delegates, including Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, Ethiopian and Rwandan Prime Ministers Abiy Ahmed and Edouard Ngirente. Guinean president Alpha Conde, South Sudan’s vice president and senior members from Uganda, Kenya,

Abdureqip Tomurniyaz, who heads the association and the school for Islamic studies in Xinjiang, speaks during a government reception held for the Eid al-Fitr festival in Beijing on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Muslim leaders from the Xinjiang region rejected Western allegations that China is suppressing religious freedom, speaking at a reception Thursday for foreign diplomats

Iran’s then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles as he meets with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations in New York September 24, 2007. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/File Photo By Parisa Hafezi Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday registered to run again in an election in June which is being seen as a test