Tunisian Ex-PM Jebali Arrested on Suspicion of Money Laundering

Tunisian police have arrested former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, a former senior member of the Ennahdha party, on suspicion of money laundering, his lawyer told Reuters.

Police in the city of Sousse seized the phones of Jebali and his wife, and then took him to an unknown location on Thursday, according to a statement by his family on Facebook.

Jebali says the arrest is politically motivated, as President Saied continues his crackdown on opponents.

Families of Wartime Disappeared Urge Bosnian Prosecutors to Act

Relatives of 46 people who disappeared in the Hadzici area after being detained by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992 rallied outside the state prosecutor’s office, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

No one has been prosecuted over the disappearances so far. In 2009, the Association of Detainees of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed a criminal complaint against members of the Serb-led Crisis Committee of Hadzici municipality, but indictments have not been issued.

UN Expert Calls for Myanmar Action as Death Toll Tops 2,000

A United Nations expert has called on the international community to do more to address the crisis in Myanmar triggered by last year’s coup as the number of people killed in the military’s crackdown on its opponents rose above 2,000.

“Too much is at stake for Myanmar and its people to accept complacency and inaction by the international community,” Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement at the end of an eight-day visit to Malaysia.

Remains of Congolese Independence Leader Lumumba Returned Home

The coffin of slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba returned to his home on Wednesday for an emotionally charged tour and burial, more than six decades after his assassination.

A plane took Lumumba’s mortal remains—a tooth that ex-colonial power Belgium handed over to his family on Monday—from Brussels to Kinshasa for a nine-day trip around the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The coffin and an accompanying delegation then flew to the central province of Sankuru, where the country’s first post-independence leader was born in the village of Onalua in 1925.

Ex-Rebel Wins Runoff to be Colombia’s 1st Leftist President

Former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly won a runoff election over a political outsider millionaire Sunday, ushering in a new era of politics for Colombia by becoming the country’s first leftist president.

Petro, a senator in his third attempt to win the presidency, got 50.48 percent of the votes, while real estate magnate Rodolfo Hernández had 47.26 percent, with almost all ballots counted, according to results released by election authorities.

UN Says Libya Rival Factions Fail to Reach Deal in Election Talks

Rival Libyan factions have failed to reach an agreement after wrapping up a third round of UN-mediated talks in Egypt, the United Nations said on Monday, further complicating international efforts to find a way out of the country’s decade-old chaos.

According to the UN special adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, legislators from Libya’s east-based parliament and the High Council of State, based in the capital, Tripoli, in the country’s west, concluded their final round of negotiations on constitutional amendments for elections late on Sunday in Cairo without a breakthrough.

Albania PM to Submit Resolution in Strasbourg Against Marty Report

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that Albania is preparing a resolution against the 2010 report that accused Kosovo’s former president of war crimes, which will be submitted to the Council of Europe.

During a joint meeting on Monday in Pristina between the governments of Kosovo and Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama said that he will personally submit a report to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg being prepared in Albania’s parliament querying the Dick Marty report and what he alleged was its Russian influence.

Sri Lanka Cabinet Moves to Clip President Rajapaksa’s Powers

The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved constitutional reforms that will limit the powers of the president in a move aimed at appeasing the protesters calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.

The decision to amend the constitution to clip the president’s wide-ranging powers was taken in a cabinet meeting on Monday. A draft of the so-called 21st amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution gives some powers back to the parliament and restores independence to commissions in key decision making.

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