Muhamad Yehia The Malian artist Rokia Traore, who was detained in Rome last year due to an international child custody battle and subsequently extradited to Belgium, was released from a Belgian prison on the evening of Wednesday, January 22, following a new hearing at the Brussels courthouse. The acclaimed musician …

Muhamad Yehia The United Nations Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday to discuss the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. UN agencies on the ground are reporting chaotic scenes in the streets of the regional capital, Goma, amid rising death and …