Monday, July 22, 2019
Beni Ghezayel, Tunisia, July 22, 2019 – A Libyan warplane of military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces made an emergency landing in neighbouring Tunisia on Monday, authorities in Libya said. The aircraft was on a “reconnaissance and patrol mission...
Monday, July 22, 2019
London, July 20, 2019 – British Airways said Saturday it had suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precautionary measure following a security review. German carrier Lufthansa also said it was suspending flights to Cairo from Munich and Frankfurt just...
Monday, July 22, 2019
Tripoli, July 22, 2019 – Libya announced the resumption of production Monday at its largest oil field and the loading of crude at a shipping terminal, following a three-day suspension due to “sabotage” of a pipeline. Al-Sharara, about 900 kilometres...
Friday, July 19, 2019
Cairo, July 17, 2019 – On Wednesday, 17 July, Islamic State militants beheaded four civilians in Sheikh Zuweid, in town in Egypt’s North Sinai after they allegedly collaborated with the Egyptian military. In online statements, the Islamic State group...
Friday, July 19, 2019
By Arezki Daoud: The political crisis in Algeria has brought to the fore the extent of the state of the bankruptcy in governance, and indeed the outright control of the government by criminal elements. Collectively, the men who have been and are still in power...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: The highly respected International Crisis Group (ICG) has proposed to Mali the controversial idea of engaging in negotiations between the government in Bamako and the insurgent groups. ICG advised Bamako to engage into negotiations with...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Cairo, July 15, 2019 – Egypt’s parliament on Monday approved amendments to a controversial law that rights groups say imposes strict curbs on non-governmental organisations. The changes come after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced last November...
Monday, July 15, 2019
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Algeria has been plagued by widespread corruption ever since Bouteflika became president in 1999. All the men and women he hired essentially set out to restructure the legal system to protect their interests, and created bureaucratic...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Ouagadougou, July 11, 2019 – Burkina Faso’s parliament on Thursday extended by six months until January a state of emergency imposed in provinces grappling with jihadist violence. The poor Sahel state has been battling a rising wave of jihadist attacks...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
July 11, 2019 – Eleven people drowned Thursday when their boat capsized on a river in central Niger, the governor of the region told AFP. The accident happened near the town of Maradi, said governor Zakari Oumarou of the Maradi region near the border with...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Cairo, July 11, 2019 – The administrator of a Facebook page supporting Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was detained for 15 days for “spreading false information”, a judicial source said Thursday. Karim Hussein is the administrator of a page named...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Salé, Morocco, July 11, 2019 – The mother of a Danish student beheaded along with another Scandinavian woman while hiking in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains called Thursday for the suspected jihadist killers to face the death penalty as their trial neared...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Benghazi, Libya, July 11, 2019 – A car bomb exploded during the funeral of an ex-army commander in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding 15, a hospital said. A security official said the attack, the first in over a...
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Here is yet another delaying tactic. General Gaid Salah has mandated Interim President to announce that they are open for a dialogue “without” the regime involved. Isn’t that rich? Frankly this is one of the weirdest...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Dubai, July 2, 2019 – The UAE denied Tuesday it shipped US missiles to Libya, which is under a UN arms embargo, after a democratic senator warned Washington could cut off arms sales to the Emirates. The foreign ministry “denied the ownership of weapons...
