Mali’s Constitutional Court on Monday declared sitting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita the winner of the country’s August 12 presidential runoff election. According to electoral officials, Keita garnered 67.2 percent of the vote, easily besting Soumaila Cisse, who received 32.8 percent. The court listed the official vote count at 2,753,698 or 34.42 percent of the country’s 8 million registered [...]

A judicial commission probing corruption under former South African president Jacob Zuma began its public hearings Monday. Zuma resigned last February and was charged with corruption in March. Zuma’s fall began with the State of Capture Report , tasked with investigating the upper levels of the Zuma administration for corruption. Specifically, the former president stands accused [...]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi  signed a cybersecurity law Saturday that allows the government broad authority to block websites while setting jail sentences and jail fines for violations. Amnesty International described the new law as giving “the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media.” There is another cybersecurity law  pending before the president, [...]

Amnesty International said Thursday that the Honorary Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner Kilic, has been released after 14 months in prison. Amnesty’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo said that Kilic was released and has returned to his family. Naidoo also called for the release of other human rights advocates whom Naidoo alleges are being detained on [...]

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday vetoed a European Parliament reform  that would increase the mandatory threshold of the vote needed to become a party in the European Parliament for the 2024 European Parliament election. Under the proposed reform countries with 26 representatives would require parties to win at least 5 percent of the national vote in [...]

Malaysia’s parliament on Thursday repealed a controversial law that set fines for “fake news.” The law was introduced in April by the administration of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The previous administration called snap elections in May shortly after passing the “fake news law” and was subsequently defeated. In the aftermath of the [...]

A Libyan appeals court on Wednesday sentenced  45 soldiers to death by firing squad for their involvement in murders that occurred during the 2011 uprising. The defendants were accused of opening fire  on a crowd of demonstrators calling for the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in the Abu Salim district of Tripoli, the nation’s capital. [...]

The Israeli military on Wednesday released its findings  of the investigation of the 2014 50-day war episode known as “Black Friday,” saying no wrongdoing occurred on behalf of the military in response to the attacks in Rafah. “Black Friday” is known as one of the deadliest episodes in the Gaza Strip during the 50-day war. [...]

UN human rights experts expressed concern in a report  Thursday that workers decontaminating the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan are at grave risk of exploitation. Tens of thousands of workers have been recruited over the past seven years since the disaster, including migrants, asylum seekers and homeless individuals. The report states: The people most [...]

The UK in EU Challenge group, an anti-Brexit organization consisting largely of British expatriates living in Spain, France and Italy, filed a new legal challenge to Brexit Tuesday alleging that the referendum vote was not a fair vote and the results should therefore be invalidated. The challenge states that, under European law, an EU nation [...]