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...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Tripoli, June 19, 2019 – Libya’s National Oil Company deplored an air raid that on Tuesday evening destroyed a warehouse operated by a subsidiary and wounded three personnel near Tripoli. “A warehouse owned by subsidiary Mellitah Oil & Gas...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
June 18, 2019 – Thirty-eight people (updated to 41) were killed and many others wounded in attacks on two ethnic Dogon villages in central Mali, the government said Tuesday, in the latest in a cycle of violence in the volatile Sahel country. No group immediately...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Cairo, June 18, 2019 (By Farid Farid and Mona Salem) – Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was buried Tuesday, as the UN backed calls for an independent investigation into the causes of his death after he collapsed in a Cairo...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Algiers, June 18, 2019 – Military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah said Tuesday that those who oppose the army were “enemies of Algeria”, as the country’s protest movement demands an overhaul of the entire regime. Those with “grudges and...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
An Algerian public prosecutor has officially communicated the facts in the corruption case related to the SOVAC company, the exclusive representative of Volkswagen in Algeria, which resulted in the sending of little known yet one of the country’s biggest...
Monday, June 17, 2019
Mohammedia, Morocco, June 17, 2019 – Beneath an apartment block that looms over Monica beach in the western coastal city of Mohammedia, a sole sand dune has escaped the clutches of Morocco’s insatiable construction contractors. Here, like elsewhere across...
Monday, June 17, 2019
Bamako, June 17, 2019 – Two Malian gendarmes were killed by a mine explosion outside a military base and a soldier died in an ambush in the north of the country, the armed forces said on Monday. Since French troops helped force out jihadists in 2013, parts of...
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...
