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...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Algeria human rights activist and medical doctor, Kamel Eddine Fekhar speaks in this interview (in Algerian) of the major issues of government abuse. Mr. Fekhar, a Berber-rights activists has been in prison for a long time. He died this week, allegedly due to...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Tripoli, May 25, 2019 (AFP) – Two Libyan journalists held by an armed group for more than three weeks have been released, the television channel they work for said Saturday. “We congratulate the press world for the release of our two colleagues, Mohamad...
Sunday, May 26, 2019
May 24, 2019 – Turkey and Qatar risk losing geopolitical influence due to turmoil in Libya and Sudan, as regional rivals Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates extend their own reach, analysts said. Doha, a long-time ally of deposed Sudanese president Omar...
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Cairo, May 25, 2019 (AFP) – The head of Sudan’s ruling military council arrived in Cairo Saturday, an airport official said, the general’s first foreign trip since taking power after the April ouster of president Omar al-Bashir. General Abdel Fattah...
Friday, May 24, 2019
Algiers, May 24, 2019 – Algerian police on Friday threw up a tight cordon around a key protest site, arresting dozens of demonstrators in the biggest show of force in 14 weeks of mass demonstrations. Protestors have rallied outside the Grand Post Office in...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Tunis, May 21, 2019 (AFP) – A United Nations arms expert held in Tunisia since late March on espionage charges was released Tuesday on bail, the prosecution service said. Moncef Kartas is a member of the UN panel of experts investigating allegations of...
