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Ethiopian courtroom extends detention of AP journalist for 3 months Cape Town, South Africa - An Ethiopian courtroom has prolonged the three-month detention for free of charge of journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to offer police an extra 11 days to interview witnesses, saying that after that the state should formally cost him or launch him. Kiyaro, a contract journalist accredited to the Associated Press,…

Senior officers working at Cnaps, the National Social Insurance Fund, in different phrases the AP Fund, together with its director normal, have been positioned in preventive custody in a single day from Tuesday to Wednesday. They are suspected, amongst…

In Mauritania, former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was placed on probation by a judge from the anti-corruption pole of the Nouakchott-Ouest Prosecutor's Office on 22 June. The man who ruled Mauritania between 2008 and 2019 was accused on March 12 of corruption, embezzlement of public property and money laundering. Facts he has always denied.…

In Libya, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces that its medical team will leave the Migrant Detention Centers in al-Mabani and Abu Salim, Tripoli. NGO Médecins sans frontières takes this decision deterioration of the situationdue to the overpopulation of detention centers. "The situation began after a gradual increase in…

Oumar Sylla is an emblem of the repression that's raging in Guinea towards the varied voices of civil society actors who mobilized towards Alpha Condé's third time period and towards the revision of the structure. We all the time ask for a right away and unconditional launch as a result of his file is empty. Laurent Duarte, Worldwide Coordinator of the Tournons la web page motion, co-signatory with Acat-France, Amnesty Worldwide and FIDH for the press…

In Algeria, journalist Rabah Karèche stays in custody in Tamanrasset. His request for a non permanent launch was rejected by the courts on Tuesday, April 27. The correspondent for the newspaper Liberté was accused on April 19, particularly of spreading false info that might jeopardize public security. Reporters With out Borders calls for his speedy launch.…

Inssa Mohameddit Bobocha is particularly accused of attempting to assassinate President Azali Assoumani on April 21, 2020. After escaping from the Moroni prison last November, he went to Madagascar, where he found asylum. However, the prisoner was extradited from Madagascar to the Comoros on January 27, 2021, and no one has seen him since. The United Nations seized him from the Comorian authorities.…

The Beninese government does not give us any proof of these allegations. And they themselves say that they do not yet have such evidence of accusations. And we, we know that this lady is disturbing, she is coming on the political field of the election while she is not expected. So we know she has the financial means to win the election, unlike many of the candidates who are there who do not have the financial means. Doctor Nadin Tayéwo Kokodé,…

Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson remains to be in custody on the Central Intelligence Company and the Legal Investigation Division, the place she continues to reply questions from the gendarmes. Greater than forty-eight hours after the arrest and after a number of hours of interrogation, he has solely simply been advised what he's accused of. However for Maitre Darius Atsoo, his lawyer, it's an…