Monday, September 9, 2019
Baha Eddine Tliba, the billionaire member of the Algerian parliament representing the eastern city of Annaba appears to be on the radar screen of the Ministry of Justice. The latter officially asked on Monday the Algerian parliament to lift the parliamentary immunity...
Monday, September 9, 2019
Cairo, Sept 9, 2019 – Videos posted online by an Egyptian construction contractor accusing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the military of corruption have gone viral, sparking a rare debate about the army’s growing economic empire. Mohamed Aly, 45, a...
Monday, September 9, 2019
By Caroline Nelly Perrot – Chastened by its early experiences of holding power in post-revolution Tunisia, Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha has moderated its image and selected lawyer Abdelfattah Mourou as its candidate for next Sunday’s presidential...
Monday, September 9, 2019
Sept 9, 2019 – French flag carrier Air France on Monday offered to snap up its much smaller rival Aigle Azur after the airline’s collapse stranded thousands of passengers mainly booked on flights to and from Algeria. Aigle Zur, which employs almost 1,200...
Monday, September 9, 2019
Rabat, Sept 9, 2019 – At least 17 people were killed in Morocco when flood waters overturned their bus in the kingdom’s southeast, authorities said Monday. Rescuers have been searching for bodies since the accident Sunday, when the bus flipped on a bridge...
Monday, September 9, 2019
Arrested just weeks before Tunisia’s September 15 presidential polls, candidate Nabil Karoui has hit the campaign trail by proxy, deploying his wife and party activists to shake the hands he cannot. “He’s not with us today, but he’s in all our...
Monday, September 9, 2019
Rights groups urged Moroccan authorities on Friday to immediately release a journalist arrested on charges of having an “illegal abortion” — an act her lawyers deny. Hajar Raissouni writes for the Arabic-language daily Akhbar Al-Yaoum, which has a...
Friday, September 6, 2019
Bamako, Sept 6, 2019 – Armed men abducted 22 members of a military unit comprising mainly Tuareg ex-rebels and former members of armed pro-government groups in violence-wracked Mali, the driver of their bus said Friday. The group, set to be incorporated into a...
Friday, September 6, 2019
Niamey, Sept 5, 2019 – At least 66 civilians were kidnapped in July in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria where the jihadist group Boko Haram is active, a UN source said Thursday. “At least 66 civilians including 44 women were abducted in July...
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Niamey, Sept 4, 2019 (By Boureima Hama) – “That’s it, time to go!” As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards his house in Niger’s capital Niamey, Mamoudou Barkire is finally leaving. Deadly floods have swamped several parts of the...
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Cairo, Sept 5, 2019 – Six suspected jihadists were killed on Thursday in a shootout with police near the Bahariya oasis southwest of the Egyptian capital, the interior ministry said. Police carried out a dawn raid against “terrorist elements” in a...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Tunis, Sept 3, 2019 – Tunisia’s judiciary on Tuesday rejected an appeal to release media mogul and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, said his lawyers, who have requested that he be able to campaign. Arrested on money laundering charges on August 23,...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Bamako, Sept 3, 2019 – Fourteen bus passengers were killed Tuesday by a road mine in central Mali, the bus company said, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of jihadists who plague the region. The vehicle was en route from the central town of Douentza to the...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Tunis, Sept 4, 2019 – Rushing to register candidates and train poll workers, Tunisia’s electoral commission has raced to organise presidential elections after the death of leader Beji Caid Essebsi, hoping to protect the country’s nascent democracy....
Monday, September 2, 2019
Algiers, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) – Algeria’s powerful army chief called Monday for a vote to elect a successor to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika by the end of the year, with a date to be announced in mid-September. Algeria’s protests to demand an...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Bamako, Sept 1, 2019 – Twelve people were killed on Sunday when a three-storey building under construction collapsed “like a house of cards” in the Mali capital Bamako, the government and local media reports said. Twenty-six people were rescued alive...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tunis, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) – A national guard officer and three suspected jihadist militants were killed in a gunbattle in northwest Tunisia on Monday, his force said. “Terrorists are still around but Tunisia is stronger,” Prime Minister Youssef...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Ouagadougou, Sept 2, 2019 (By Armel Baily with David Esnault in Abidjan) – A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday convicted and jailed two generals on charges of masterminding a coup in the fragile Sahel state in 2015. General Gilbert Diendere was convicted...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tunisia’s electoral commission on Saturday announced a final list of 26 presidential candidates to stand in a September 15 poll to elect a successor to late leader Beji Caid Essebsi. “There are 26 candidates for the 2019 presidential election,”...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tunisian minister and presidential candidate Selma Elloumi Rekik (: سلمى اللومي الرقيق; born 5 June 1956) is originally from . She is a businesswoman, politician and was a member of , though she currently is part of . Biography[] Elloumi at her office at the Ministry...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tunisian politician (born 1950) Abdelkrim Zbidi (born 25 June 1950 in ) is a Tunisian politician. Biography[] He holds a doctorate of medicine from the , a master's degree in human physiology and functional exploitations, a master's degree in human pharmacology, a...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tunisian politician and lawyer Abdelfattah Mourou (: عبد الفتاح مورو) is a former politician and lawyer. He is a co-founder of the and served as its Vice-President. He served as First Deputy Speaker of the from 2014 to 2019. Biography[] Mourou in the 1980s At a young...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tunisian politician (born 1970) Youssef Chahed (: يوسف الشاهد; born 18 September 1975) is a who served as the 14th from 27 August 2016 to 27 February 2020. He served as Secretary of State for Fisheries and Minister of Local Affairs in the past. He was a member of the...
Thursday, August 29, 2019
A MEA Risk assessment of the Algerian political stalemate warns that the crisis in the North African nation could reach its peak in the upcoming autumn season. MEA Risk even estimated that the anti-government protest movement will galvanize as of mid-September and...
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Rabat, Aug 29, 2019 (AFP) – At least seven people were killed Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a village football pitch where a game was being played in south Morocco, local authorities said. The victims included a 17-year-old boy and six...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
N’Djamena, Aug 28, 2019 – Eleven people were killed in fighting between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers in a dispute over trampled crops in southern Chad, the local governor said Wednesday. The violence broke out in the district of Koumogo on Monday,...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Kati, Mali, Aug 27, 2019 (AFP) – More than 1,000 trucks loaded with merchandise were blocked Tuesday at the entrance to Mali’s capital Bamako on the fourth day of protests against the poor state of the country’s roads. AFP reporters witnessed the...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Tripoli, Aug 27, 2019 – The bodies of five migrants including a Moroccan child were recovered off Libya’s coast Tuesday while up to 20 others were missing after a Europe-bound boat sank, the navy said. Navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem told reporters 65 migrants,...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
N’Djamena, Aug 27, 2019 – Chad has handed down jail terms to 243 rebels who crossed into the country from Libya in February before their incursion was halted by French air strikes, the government said Tuesday. Out of “267 people who were arrested, 12...
Friday, August 23, 2019
Media magnate Nabil Karoui remains in the race for Tunisia’s upcoming presidential election despite his arrest for alleged money laundering, the head of the country’s electoral commission said Saturday. Karoui, one of 26 presidential candidates given...
Friday, August 23, 2019
Algiers, Aug 23, 2019 – Algerians on Friday were back on the streets demanding an overhaul of the political system as the country’s protest movement entered a seventh month with no let-up in sight. Crowds of demonstrators who thronged the capital and key...
Friday, August 23, 2019
By deploying troops and sealing borders to try to quell ethnic clashes in eastern Chad, President Idriss Deby risks worsening tensions and economic fallout in a region that is already trigger-sensitive, analysts say. Deby on Monday announced the deployment of 5,000...
Friday, August 23, 2019
Algeria’s former justice minister Tayeb Louh was Thursday placed in preventative detention on allegations of abuse of power, state media reported. Louh is the latest in a string of prominent politicians and businessmen to be questioned or detained over alleged...
Friday, August 23, 2019
Tunis, Aug 23, 2019 – Tunisian electoral and media authorities have banned three local outlets from covering the presidential election campaign, including a channel founded by key candidate Nabil Karoui. The ban targets media mogul Karoui’s Nessma TV,...
