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...
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...
