A section of the historic walls around the Old City of Kairouan collapsed on Saturday, killing three masons carrying...
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UN rapporteur on human rights pressures Algeria to release jailed activists
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human...
North Africa’s use of drones in the agricultural sector
By Aymen Jamli: A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia....
Sahel: Growing concern over crackdown on media in the Sahel
Thirty media outlets and press freedom groups on Wednesday called for Mali and Burkina Faso's ruling juntas to...
Tunisia: UGTT union chief rejects talks with IMF in fear of tough austerity measures
Tunisia's largest union on Monday attacked the government's handling of negotiations with the IMF on a loan to bail...
Egypt: Al Jazeera Journalist Hisham Abdelaziz released from prison as Egypt moves closer to Qatar
The authorities in Egypt have released a journalist with the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network nearly four years...
Morocco ups campaign to capture more migrants crossing seas
Morocco's navy has intercepted 552 migrants attempting to reach Europe over 10 days in both the Atlantic Ocean and...
Several killed in conflict between herders and farmers in south of Chad
Clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad have left at least 22 people dead, authorities said Wednesday...
Fifteen Tunisian migrants missing in Mediterranean
Fifteen Tunisian migrants are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean during an attempt to reach Europe,...
Tunisia: Profile of jailed opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi
Islamist-inspired Ennahdha opposition party arrested on Monday, once towered over Tunisia's politics but many now...
Morocco: Despite being an agricultural powerhouse, Morocco is experiencing soaring food prices
By Ismail Bellaouali: Soaring inflation in Morocco is driving up living costs and stirring public anger, and as food...
Libyan authorities are cracking down on civil society groups
Libyan authorities have imposed "severe restrictions" on local and international civil society groups, obstructing...
Algeria passes law further curbing press freedom
Algeria's parliament on Thursday passed a law further restricting press freedom in the North African country by...
Migrations: 32 migrants perish off the coast of Tunisia
The death toll after a boat carrying sub-Saharan migrants sank off Tunisia this week rose to 32 on Friday after...
Tunisia: Football star Nizar Issaoui sets himself alight to protest police brutality
A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week in what he called a...
Egypt: Generosity brings people together in Egypt amid Ramadan’s soaring food prices
By Bahira Amin: In a time of dire economic trouble, Egyptians are holding fast to the Ramadan tradition of charity,...
Migrations: Five migrants die off the coast of Tunisia, Algeria disbands smuggling gang
Five migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned and another 28 were missing Wednesday after their boat capsized off...
10 dead after Moroccan fishing boat sinks off Western Sahara
At least 10 fishermen drowned Tuesday when a Moroccan trawler sank in the Atlantic off the coast of disputed Western...
Egypt: Khaled Elbalshy of banned Darb news site, elected chief of Egypt’s journalist union
Egypt's journalist union said Saturday it had elected government critic Khaled Elbalshy as its head, amid a crackdown...
Sahel’s children are facing extreme dangers, desperately need humanitarian help
By Robin Millard: Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and...
Tunisia: European Parliament lashes out at Tunisian president over his “authoritarian drift”
The European Parliament on Thursday decried Tunisian President Kais Saied's "authoritarian drift" and called for the...
Algeria: MSF criticizes Algeria for mistreatment of migrants
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced Thursday the "abandon" of thousands of migrants expelled by Algeria into...
Mali junta cracks down on social media influencers, arrests Rokia Doumbia
A prominent social media influencer in Mali was detained Wednesday after lambasting the ruling military junta as a...
Tunisia arrests spokesman of moderate Islamist party Ennahdha
Photo: Ennahdha spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti: The spokesman of Tunisia's Islamist-leaning Ennahdha party has been...
Maghreb competition: The ridiculous debate over who should claim ownership of the Haiek veil
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Competition between the regimes of Algeria and Morocco has gone mainstream. Now Algerians and...
Libya: With thousands of migrants held in detention centers, Libya continues to violate human rights
Around 5,000 migrants are being held in official detention centres in Libya and they represent just the tip of the...
Tunisia: President’s racist speech sparks violence against migrants
By Evelyne Aka, with Françoise Kadri in Tunis: Almost 300 people returned from Tunisia to Mali and Ivory Coast on...
Tunisian regime accuses former head of Truth and Dignity Commission of falsifying report
The head of a panel tasked with uncovering abuses under Tunisia's autocratic past rulers said Tuesday she had been...
Egypt: Train crash kills four in Qalyub, government to give US$3K compensation for the families of victims
A train crash in Egypt killed four people and injured more than 20, officials said Wednesday about the latest in a...
Tunisia: Protesters demand release of political prisoners
Hundreds of Tunisians rallied Sunday in defiance of a protest ban, demanding the release of more than 20 prominent...
Egyptian court labels veteran human rights activists “terrorists”, sentences them to 15 years in prison
A special Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced four veteran human rights activists to prison terms up to 15 years for...
Algeria: Ten dead as bus falls into ravine near Bouira
At least ten people died and 25 others were injured after their bus fell into a ravine in northeastern Algeria on...
Tunisia in damage control campaign after president’s remarks on migrants
By Ezzedine Said: Tunisia's top diplomat sought to "reassure" sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, in an interview...
Sahel: Chad’s human rights commission puts death toll in last year’s protests to 128
A total of 128 people died in the violent repression of opposition protests in Chad last year, the country's human...
Tunisia: Presidential ‘hate speech’ on migrants causes public outcry
Tunisian rights groups accused on Wednesday President Kais Saied of racism and hate speech after he said "hordes" of...
Tunisia: Judicial harassment against former Parliamentary Speaker Rached Ghannouchi intensifies
Tunisia's former parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi appeared in court Tuesday on new terror-related charges after...
Morocco: Appeals court reduces sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane but he is still in prison
A Moroccan appeals court halved the sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane, jailed for social media posts calling...
Algeria arrests four over dissident who fled to France
Algerian authorities have placed four people in pre-trial detention over the "illegal" departure of wanted...
Egyptian Coptic Christians who were kidnapped in Libya are still detained in an illegal immigration center
Egypt's government said Friday it was "working around the clock" to secure the release of six Egyptian Coptic...
Morocco: Inflation exceeds 8%, unions protest economic hardship, defy government’s ban on marches
Moroccan trade union activists protested Sunday in the capital Rabat and other cities to denounce surging costs of...
Algeria arrests analyst Raouf Farrah, keeps elderly mother of opposition figure under court supervision
The mother of prominent French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui has been released from custody but remains under court...
Six-year-old boy rescued in Syria four days after quake, as death toll in Syria/Turkey nears 23,000
Rescuers found a six-year-old boy alive under the rubble on Friday, four days after a devastating earthquake killed...
Sahel: The sad plight of children in the Sahel’s conflict zones
By Amaury Hauchard: After fleeing the jihadists who threatened their remote village, Aichata Hassan had no idea that...