Monday, June 17, 2019
Algiers, June 17, 2019 – Algeria’s top businessman Ali Haddad, a key supporter of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was jailed for six months on Monday for holding two passports, in the first conviction in a string of corruption probes. The business...
Monday, June 17, 2019
Cairo, June 17, 2019 – Mohamed Morsi, who died Monday aged 67, was Egypt’s first democratically elected president but spent just one turbulent year in office after the 2011 uprising before the army toppled him. The Islamist’s overthrow was followed...
Monday, June 17, 2019
Tunis, June 14, 2019 – Dozens of migrants rescued in international waters off Tunisia are still stranded 15 days later as authorities refuse to allow the boat carrying them to access a nearby port, the UN said Friday. Egyptian tugboat Maridive 601 rescued 75...
Friday, June 14, 2019
Algiers, June 14, 2019 (By Abdellah Cheballah with Aymeric Vincenot) – Demonstrators rallied in the Algerian capital Friday to keep up their demands for the ouster of all officials linked to the former president, unappeased by the detention of two ex-premiers....
Thursday, June 13, 2019
A poll conducted by Sigma Conseil is suggesting that the Tunisians are tired of the good old political parties that have been governing the country and are prepared to bring independent voices in the forefront of government. Although polls are often misleading, this...
Thursday, June 13, 2019
The North Africa Journal – June 13, 2019: In another unprecedented move, judicial authorities tied to the Supreme Court placed former Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal under a detention warrant in the El-Harrach prison. Sellal, another highly unpopular operative...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Algeria’s highly unpopular former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has been incarcerated on Wednesday, 12 June under a warrant of detention by the investigating judge of the Supreme Court. He is now in the notorious Harrach prison, according to state-owned ENTV news...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
The North Africa Journal | 12 June 2019: These are unusual days in Algeria. Corruption probes are wreaking havoc on the country’s economy, freezing entire enterprises, and risking tens of thousands of jobs. While many CEOs are now behind bars, awaiting what...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
June 10, 2019 – The UN Security Council on Monday renewed its authorization of a European Union mission to combat arms smuggling off Libya’s coast amid calls for tougher action to cut the flow of weapons. The council voted unanimously to extend the work of...
Monday, June 10, 2019
The North Africa Journal | 10 June 2019: The United Arab Emirates has launched an offensive aimed at controlling Muslim houses of worship (mosques) in France. The UAE’s ultimate target is to wage its anti-Muslim Brotherhood (MB) war in Europe. Its hatred of the MB...
Monday, June 10, 2019
June 10, 2019 – Nineteen people died in an attack on a village in the troubled north of Burkina Faso, a security source said Monday. “Several dozen armed men carried out an attack on the district of Arbinda, shooting several people dead,” a local...
Monday, June 10, 2019
Brief: MEA Risk LLC | 10 June 2019: On 8 June, in Raz El Ma area of Timbuktu, French forces of Operation Barkhane raided a suspicious vehicle. Three people, a father and two sons, were killed. According to a community leader, the people killed were just ordinary...
Monday, June 10, 2019
Bamako, June 12, 2019 – A massacre at a village in central Mali that according to early estimates killed 95 people (read below) left 35 dead, the authorities said Wednesday, giving a final toll. Twenty-four of the dead were children, the government said in a...
Monday, June 10, 2019
Washington, June 9, 2019 – A US military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Niger, site of a deadly jihadist attack on American forces in 2017, the military announced Sunday. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle activated the...
Monday, June 10, 2019
Algiers, June 10, 2019 – Algerian authorities on Monday detained an automobile tycoon linked to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika on charges of corruption, one of his lawyers told AFP. Mahieddine Tahkout “was detained along with his son and two of...
Friday, June 7, 2019
Algiers, June 7, 2019 (By Abdelhafid Daamache and Aymeric Vincenot) – Hundreds of demonstrators packed the centre of the Algerian capital on Friday calling on the interim president to quit a day after he called for dialogue aimed at fixing a new date for...
Friday, June 7, 2019
June 7, 2019 – The UN attacked Friday horrific conditions in migrant detention centres in Libya, with dozens dying from tuberculosis and hundreds scraping by on starvation rations while many others appear to have disappeared. “We are deeply concerned about...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Comment by Arezki Daoud | 6 June 2019: Taking place simultaneously with the Algerian protests, Sudan has gone from a country of hope to a complete disaster. Militants in both countries keep an eye on each others and see if they can borrow tactics that work. These...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
By Arezki Daoud – 6 June 2019 – Algeria’s Interim President, Abdelkader Bensalah, looking old and sick, just like Bouteflika before him, spoke tonight (Thursday, 6 June) in a highly provocative televised speech essentially to deliver nothing good, but...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Managem Group generates over half a billion euros of revenues a year, bringing massive wealth to the Moroccan monarchy. Producing gold, cobalt, precious metals and other minerals inside and outside Morocco, the company is rich but not without its own controversies....
Thursday, June 6, 2019
The Algerian protest movement has brought into the fore the divisions pitting the various Islamist movements operating in and outside of the country. Different branches of political Islam interpret the calls for democracy and the rule of law by the Algerian people,...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Cairo, June 6, 2019 – Egyptian security forces have killed 14 suspected militants during a raid carried out in the restive Sinai Peninsula in response to a deadly checkpoint attack, the authorities said. Wednesday’s attack, claimed by the Islamic State...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
N’Djamena, June 5, 2019 – Opposition parties in Chad on Wednesday denounced President Idriss Deby Itno after he hinted that military courts may be re-introduced in a bid to curb ethnic violence. Deby said Tuesday he was concerned about tit-for-tat violence...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Cairo, June 5, 2019 – Militants killed eight Egyptian paramilitaries on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, centre of a long-running jihadist insurgency, security and medical sources said. “Eight killed and three wounded were transferred to...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Maputo, June 3, 2019 – International donors have pledged $1.2 billion to help Mozambique recover from the devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth, but $3.2 billion is needed overall, UN officials said Monday. A conference in the central city of Beira met...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Istanbul, June 4, 2019 – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey would not withdraw from a deal made with Russia to buy an S-400 missile defence system despite US threats of “devastating” consequences. Ankara’s desire to buy the...
Monday, June 3, 2019
June 3, 2019 – Egypt on Monday urged all sides in Sudan to return to the negotiating table as security forces moved to break up a weeks-long protest camp in Khartoum. Violence erupted at the sit-in outside the army headquarters in the Sudanese capital earlier...
Sunday, June 2, 2019
By Arezki Daoud: 2 June 2019: The Algerian presidential election scheduled by the regime to take place on 4 July 2019 has been cancelled. On Sunday 2 June, the country’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, announced the “postponement” after it rejected the...
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Rabat, May 30, 2019 – An Italian mafia fugitive wanted for drug trafficking, murder, extortion and other alleged crimes has been arrested in Morocco, authorities in the North African country said Thursday. Raffaele Vallefuoco, 55, is accused of heading a cell...
Saturday, June 1, 2019
The Italian navy rescued 100 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as 178 others were taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa, and Malta, officials said. Meanwhile, 149 migrants from East Africa, including 65 minors and 13 babies under one, were...
