Friday, October 4, 2019
Cairo, Oct 4, 2019 – Egypt lowered fuel prices on Friday, the oil ministry said, following several rounds of price hikes as part of an austerity programme that have triggered discontent. The move comes a week after rare protests broke out in Cairo and other...
Friday, October 4, 2019
The west has had a great deal of sympathizing for the struggle of the people of Hong Kong. There has been an uproar about abuses against the Sudanese people. But no single western nation has said a word about the abuses taking place in Algeria. Opposition figures and...
Friday, October 4, 2019
By Arezki Daoud – 4 October 2019: The Algerian political crisis is in its 33rd week with no sign of any of the protagonists standing down. The standoff continues, with the military command intensifying its repression against members of civil society, while the...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
By Arezki Daoud – 1 October 2019: This is make-or-break moment for Algerian military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah and the few generals left standing around him. After eliminating the visible figures of those considered as their political foes, culminating...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Kano, Nigeria, Oct 1, 2019 – Jihadists killed five members of a civilian militia during an attack on a town in conflict-hit northeast Nigeria over the weekend, security sources said Tuesday. Fighters aligned to the Islamic State group on Sunday launched an...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Oct 1, 2019 – A large contingent of Malian troops, backed by air support, fought Tuesday with jihadist fighters who made an incursion into a military camp in the country’s fragile central region, sources said. Two military posts came under attack at dawn...
Monday, September 30, 2019
Rabat, Sept 30, 2019 – Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail for having had an “illegal abortion” and sexual relations outside marriage. Her gynaecologist was given two years and her Sudanese...
Friday, September 27, 2019
Tunis, Sept 27, 2019 – One of two presidential candidates to have won through to a runoff election in Tunisia has called for his rival to be released from prison. “The situation leaves me morally uncomfortable… I would sincerely like to see him...
Friday, September 27, 2019
The US military command for Africa announced Friday it killed 17 suspected Islamic State group jihadists in southern Libya, in the third such strike in a week. “At this time, it is assessed the airstrike killed 17 terrorists” on Thursday, Africom said in a...
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Cairo, Sept 26, 2019 (By Mona Salem) – Rival hashtags, angry videos and calls to march — the war for Egyptian minds is raging online ahead of possible mass demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Encouraged by rare protests that erupted last...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Algiers, Sept 25, 2019 (AFP) – An Algerian military court has sentenced the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and three co-defendants to 15 years in prison, the state APS news agency reported on Wednesday. Said Bouteflika, widely seen as the real...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Cairo, Sept 25, 2019 – Egyptian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people, rights groups said Wednesday, broadening a crackdown launched after rare protests calling for the ouster of general-turned-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The wave of arrests comes...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Mohamed Djemai, the recently imposed head of the disgraced nationalist party FLN, and member of parliament representing the northeastern region of Tebessa had grandiose goals. He was propelled to head the country’s most powerful party, albeit the most hated one too,...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Doha, Qatar, Sept 19, 2019 – Qatar’s Al-Jazeera broadcaster marked 1,000 days on Thursday since its producer Mahmoud Hussein was detained in Egypt following accusations of incitement against the state and spreading false news. State-funded Al-Jazeera has...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Kano, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2019 – The Nigerian army has shut down the office of NGO Action Against Hunger in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, according to staff, after six of its employees were taken hostage by jihadists. “They came and asked everyone in...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
By Amal Belalloufi – Algeria’s military has ordered police to block protesters from outside the capital entering Algiers, the army chief said Wednesday, taking a tougher line after months of mass anti-regime rallies and ahead of December elections to fill...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Algiers, Sept 19, 2019 – An Algerian court on Thursday ordered the pre-trial detention of a leading figure in protests that have gripped Algeria for nearly seven months, one of his lawyers said. Former state TV journalist Fodil Boumala was arrested on Wednesday...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
While the Tunisian people are preparing to chose their new president, former dictator from 1987 to 2011, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, died in Saudi Arabia. He died at 83 in a hospital, according to Tunisian officials. Ben Ali has been in exile his wife Leïla Ben Ali and...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Tripoli, Sept 16, 2019 – Drone strikes on Libya’s coastal town of Sirte killed two pro-unity government fighters and wounded 18 others on Monday, their force said, blaming foreign powers backing military strongman Khalifa Haftar. The three raids on the...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Benin City, Nigeria, Sept 17, 2019 (Sophie Bouillon) – Emerging from her ordeal, Gloria considers herself “privileged”. Last year, the 26-year-old left Nigeria with four other women, dreaming of a better life in Europe. On a tortuous journey, three...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Tunis, Sept 17, 2019 – Tunisia’s electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a presidential runoff vote will pit law professor Kais Saied against detained media mogul Nabil Karoui. The result from Sunday’s vote, thrusting two political outsiders...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Algiers, Sept 17, 2019 – Protesters massed in the Algerian capital on Tuesday to demand the cancellation of a controversial presidential election planned for December 12. Interim leader Abdelkader Bensalah announced the poll on Monday in a bid to resolve the...
Monday, September 16, 2019
Tunis, Sept 16, 2019 – Political outsider Kais Saied was leading Tunisia’s elections with just over a quarter of votes counted, the electoral commission said Monday, in the country’s second free presidential vote since the Arab Spring. Saied was on...
Monday, September 16, 2019
Tunis, Sept 15, 2019 (By Caroline Nelly Perrot) – Two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia’s divisive election claimed Sunday to have won through to a runoff, hours after polling closed in the country’s second free presidential poll since the...
Monday, September 16, 2019
Algiers, Sept 15, 2019 – Algeria is to hold a presidential election on December 12, five months into a political vacuum since longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests, his interim successor announced Sunday. “I have...
Friday, September 13, 2019
Tunisia will hold on Sunday its second free presidential election by universal suffrage since the 2011 uprising that toppled an autocratic regime, with growing uncertainty over who will reach the next round. Twenty-six candidates are in the race, including the...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Chad’s parliament on Tuesday extended by three months a state of emergency in three eastern regions hit by rebel violence and deadly inter-communal clashes. In August, President Idriss Deby had declared a state of emergency for three months in the Sila and...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Deadly floods across Niger have left 57 people dead and affected more than 130,000 since they began in June, according to the latest government toll. Extreme weather is common in Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, but the capital and even desert areas...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Bamako, Sept 11, 2019 (By Maīmouna Moro) – Like many of his fellow Malians, Ousmane Maiga used to drive regularly between Gao, in the north of the country, and the capital Bamako. Today, he balks at doing the once-familiar trip. For one thing, there is the...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
A Malian soldier was killed and seven others injured in an ambush by gunmen on Wednesday in the northern Timbuktu region of the country, military and local sources said. The attack was carried out in the morning by armed men on a pickup truck about 20 kilometres (12...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Opposition leader Karim Tabou was forcefully taken away on Wednesday, 11 September in early afternoon by unidentified plainclothes agents near his home in Algiers. His family said one of the men pledged he will be released within two hours. It turned out he is now...
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...
