Monday, August 5, 2019
Tripoli, Aug 5, 2019 – A Libyan airliner has narrowly escaped being hit by incoming fire as it landed at war-torn capital Tripoli’s sole functioning airport, aviation officials said. “The crew on the flight from Benghazi, which was carrying 124...
Monday, August 5, 2019
Cairo, Aug 5, 2019 – At least 20 people have been killed when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into three others causing a huge explosion in Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said Monday. The car collision happened just before midnight Sunday...
Monday, August 5, 2019
Two armed alleged jihadists have been shot dead in an “anti-terrorist” operation led by national guard and army units in southern Tunisia, the interior ministry said Saturday. The two “terrorists” were killed in the mountainous area of Orbata...
Monday, August 5, 2019
(By Amal Belalloufi with Aymeric Vincenot) – Algerians descended on the capital in huge numbers Friday and called for “civil disobedience” for the first time in their months-long anti-regime campaign, despite a heavy police presence. “Civil...
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Algiers, Aug 1, 2019 – Algeria’s judiciary has refused to provisionally release a well-known independence war veteran detained for allegedly insulting the army, his lawyers said. Lakhdar Bouregaa, 86, was arrested at the end of June for “insulting a...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Algiers, July 30, 2019 – Algeria’s powerful army chief Tuesday ruled out accepting any pre-conditions to launching talks to end the country’s political crisis, saying there was “no more time to lose”. Algerians have taken to the streets...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Tripoli, July 30, 2019 – Rocket fire forced flights to be suspended and passengers evacuated at the Libyan capital’s airport, where a UN envoy warned civilian aircraft had come “perilously close” to being hit. Fighting has raged on...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Cairo, July 30, 2019 – Nearly a third of Egyptians live below the poverty line, up from 27.8 percent in 2015, Egypt’s flagship state-owned newspaper Al Ahram reported on Tuesday, citing official figures. “The poverty rate has reached 32.5% across the...
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...
