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...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
the Algerian crisis Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violence The Algerian military has lost its capability to maintain a reasonable level of objectivity. Its senior command, directed by General Gaid Salah, is now in intense panic mode after it...
Monday, July 1, 2019
July 1, 2019 – Six Turkish sailors held by forces led by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar have been freed, a Turkish foreign ministry official said on Monday. “The sailors are free. According to their wishes, they continue to work,” said the official,...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 – Lawyers for the family of a Danish hiker murdered last year in Morocco said on Thursday that authorities had failed to monitor the activities of some suspects before the killing. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Tunis, June 27, 2019 – Two suicide bombers attacked security forces in the Tunisian capital on Thursday, killing a police officer and wounding at least eight people including several civilians, the interior ministry said. One attack on the main street of Tunis...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Tripoli, June 26, 2019 – Libyan forces opposed to Khalifa Haftar claimed Wednesday to have retaken Gharyan, a strategic town where the controversial strongman’s fighters were based in the west of the country. “Gharyan is under our total...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Tunis, June 27, 2019 – Double suicide attacks shook Tunisia’s capital Thursday, even as the country was plunged into uncertainty with the hospitalisation of President Beji Caid Essebsi who was said to be in “critical condition”. The violence...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Nouakchott, June 25, 2019 – Mauritanian police raided the headquarters of two opposition parties, closing one of them amid high tension followed a disputed outcome to presidential elections, sources said Tuesday. The operation late Monday came after police...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Ouagadougou, June 25, 2019 – A “terrorist attack” left two gendarmes dead and one seriously wounded in the north of Burkina Faso where jihadist violence has raged since 2015, the national police said Tuesday. The attack occurred Monday in the...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Niamey, June 25, 2019 – Nearly 20,000 migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger over the past three years, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. The IOM said that on June 15 alone it rescued 406 migrants from 14 West...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Cairo, June 26, 2019 – Seven police officers have been killed in a jihadist attack in restive North Sinai, Egypt’s interior ministry said Wednesday. The attack near the regional capital El-Arish targeted an “assembly centre” for police,...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Lagos, June 26, 2019 – With over 200 million people and an emerging middle class, Nigeria is witnessing a boom in demand for meat that offers potential but also risks for the semi-nomadic herders who provide most of its beef. According to government estimates,...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Cairo, June 25, 2019 – Egyptian authorities raided 19 businesses Tuesday accused of funding a plot to overthrow the state, the interior ministry said. Footage broadcast on Egyptian television showed police officers raiding the firms in the capital Cairo and the...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Libya’s National Oil Company has warned that any bid to tamper with the sector could escalate unrest in the conflict-hit country, after the parliamentary speaker called for a halt to production. In a statement issued late Saturday, NOC said it “is...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Nouakchott, June 23, 2019 – Government candidate and frontrunner Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won an absolute majority in the first round of Mauritania’s presidential election, with nearly all votes counted, the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested 18 people who had brandished the Berber minority flag during an anti-government protest in Algiers despite a ban imposed by the military, their lawyers said. They were detained during a mass protest Friday by Algerians demanding...
Thursday, June 20, 2019
In this podcast, Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk and The North Africa Journal provides an update on the state of the stalled political transition in Algeria. Download MP3 | Listen to Audio version on main podcast services Transcript: Rough times in Algeria as the military...
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Par Arezki Daoud – La déconstruction du régime algérien des deux dernières décennies est en cours. Au moins les personnalités publiques chargées d’administrer le pays depuis plus de 20 ans font maintenant l’objet d’enquêtes de la part...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Egypt’s Morsi likely ‘more popular’ after death Cairo, June 19, 2019 (By Aziz El Massassi) – Unpopular in power and deposed after huge protests, Egypt’s ex-president Mohamed Morsi could be humanised in the eyes of many Egyptians after his...
