Friday, January 3, 2020
Newly appointed president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced his first government cabinet, which comprises 39 members, including five women, seven Deputy Ministers and four Secretaries of State. The appointments fail to introduce sweeping changes and have disappointed...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Bamako, Dec 30, 2019 – Malian authorities and the United Nations have opened investigations into the alleged disappearance of more than 20 civilians in the war-torn West African country this month, security and government officials said Monday. There are few...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Well-known independence war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa, was released from jail on 2 January 2020. He had been detained for six months for questioning the army’s intentions and criticizing the late army chief Gaid Salah, but was set free even before his trial, as...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Algeria has concluded three contracts for the purchase of Russian fifth-generation stealth fighter Su-57 and the Su-34 and Su-35. Algeria ordered 14 aircraft for each model, thereby strengthening its military cooperation with Russia. With the acquisition of Su-57...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
The Sahel is experiencing utter destabilization. Almost all countries of the region, starting with Mali, then Niger, Chad, more recently Burkina Faso, and to a certain extent northern Nigeria, are falling apart and suffering from a series of factors that conspire to...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Libya has long been a battleground pitting several regional powers against one another. That competition for influence and control of energy resources, is about to get even more intense. While warlord Haftar has been receiving virtually unlimited support from the...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Algiers, Jan 2, 2020 (AFP) – Algeria released on Thursday well-known independence war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa, who was detained last June for allegedly insulting the army, one of his lawyers told AFP. “His trial, which was due to start this (Thursday)...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Tunis, Jan 2, 2020 – Tunisia’s prime minister-designate on Thursday unveiled a proposed government composed of independent figures, after months of negotiations between political parties to fill positions failed. The cabinet — comprised of 28...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 – The director of an Algerian internet radio station has been placed in pre-trial detention after a new charges were pressed against him, a prisoners’ rights group said Friday. Sarbacane chief Abdelkrim Zeghileche was put in pre-trial...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Algiers, Dec 28, 2019 – Algeria’s new president on Saturday named as his prime minister an academic turned political insider who vowed to work to win back people’s trust after months of street protests. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected this month to...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Cairo, Dec 28, 2019- At least 28 people including textile workers and several Asian tourists were killed Saturday in two separate road crashes in Egypt, official media and other sources said. The deadliest accident occurred when a bus transporting textile workers...
Friday, December 27, 2019
Rabat, Dec 26, 2019 – A Moroccan YouTuber (see photo) was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for “insulting the king” in a video broadcast on social networks, his lawyer said. In a separate case, a Moroccan journalist and activist was charged...
Friday, December 27, 2019
Tripoli, Dec 27, 2019 (By Nawas Al-Darraji) – Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children’s belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital’s outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved...
Friday, December 27, 2019
Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 – Tens of thousands of Algerians demonstrated Friday for the second consecutive week since the contentious election of a new president, insisting on a total revamp of the political establishment. Since February 22, the streets of the...
Monday, December 23, 2019
Paris, Dec 23, 2019 – France’s armed forces said Monday they had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during operations in Mali at the weekend in which it said 40 “terrorists” were killed. On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron...
Friday, December 20, 2019
Bamako, Dec 20, 2019 – Two soldiers and two civilians have been killed and another six people injured in separate roadside-bomb attacks this week in volatile central Mali, local government and security officials said on Friday. The two civilian victims were...
Friday, December 20, 2019
Algiers, Dec 20, 2019 – Algerian demonstrators on Friday rejected a call for dialogue by the country’s new president, insisting on a month-long protest movement’s demands for sweeping reforms in the North African country. Huge crowds flooded the...
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Algiers, Dec 19, 2019 – Establishment insider Abdelmadjid Tebboune was sworn in Thursday as Algeria’s new president, a week after winning elections marred by mass protests and record abstention. He succeeds veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Algiers, Dec 17, 2019 – Students, teachers and other demonstrators rallied in their thousands in Algeria’s capital Tuesday against the newly elected president, rejecting his offer of dialogue with a months-old protest movement. Abdelmadjid Tebboune won...
Monday, December 16, 2019
Carmaker Volkswagen has suspended production in Algeria, where the head of its local partner has been detained since June in a corruption probe, a spokesman for the German auto giant said. “Volkswagen is aware of a corruption investigation by Algerian...
Monday, December 16, 2019
Boko Haram jihadists gunned down 19 cattle herders Saturday in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia sources and residents told AFP on Sunday. Ethnic Fulani herders, besieged by a spate of armed attacks targeting their cattle, pursued Boko Haram, sparking a fierce...
Friday, December 13, 2019
[email_link] Algiers, Dec 13, 2019 – Abdelmadjid Tebboune, declared victor on Friday in Algeria’s unpopular presidential election, has spent decades at the heart of the country’s establishment including a brief stint as prime minister. Aged 74 and a...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Algiers, Dec 12, 2019 – Algeria held a tense presidential election Thursday meant to bring stability after a year of turmoil, but voting was marred as protesters stormed polling stations and staged a mass rally in the capital. The unpopular vote comes almost 10...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Niamey, Dec 10, 2019 – The United States is donating $21 million (19 million euros) of military equipment to Niger help fight jihadism in the Sahel region, an American diplomatic told AFP on Tuesday. The Americans have already handed over dozens of armoured...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Libya’s National Oil Corporation said Tuesday it had agreed to let French oil giant Total buy US outfit Marathon Oil’s 16.33-percent stake in the country’s Waha oil concessions for $650 million (586 million euros). The NOC said in a statement it had...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Niamey, Dec 11, 2019 – Three soldiers and 14 attackers died in an assault earlier this week on an army camp in western Niger near the border with Mali, the defence minister said. Heavily armed “terrorists” in a dozen 4×4 vehicles led the attack...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of people, including large numbers of students demonstrated on Tuesday, Dec.10 in Algiers and across the country to reiterate their rejection of an election being forced by the military high command. This was the 42nd consecutive week of rallies...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Cairo, Dec 10, 2019 – A self-exiled Egyptian businessman and dissident who has accused President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of corruption has been sentenced in absentia to five years in jail for tax evasion, a judicial source said Tuesday. Mohamed Ali, a construction...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Algiers, Dec 10, 2019 – An Algerian court sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms Tuesday in the first of a series of high-profile corruption trials launched after longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests in...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
The Algerian diaspora was supposed to vote this past weekend. But in Western nations, Algerian diplomatic missions used by the military command to force an election, have faced unprecedented backlash. In Paris, the consulate general has been under pressure since...
Monday, December 9, 2019
Dec 8, 2019, By Salsabil Chellali: Social networks set alight the months-long protest movement against Algeria’s establishment, but as a contentious presidential poll looms, bots and trolls are staging an online comeback to bolster the regime. The protests which...
Friday, December 6, 2019
Analysts at MEA Risk LLC have looked at the situation in Algeria and see no positive outcome from next week’s presidential elections. The peaceful demeanor of the anti-regime movement has disoriented the ruling military elite, headed by General Gaid Salah,...
Friday, December 6, 2019
Algerian authorities are cracking down on the protest movement known as “the Hirak,” which opposes holding the presidential elections scheduled for December 12, 2019, arresting hundreds of activists and imprisoning scores for protests or waving flags, Human Rights...
Friday, December 6, 2019
A vast crowd rallied in Algiers on the final Friday before a contentious presidential election many see as an elite attempt to cling to power despite months of protests, an AFP journalist said. “No to voting, we swear we will not stop!” protesters chanted....
