Thursday, January 18, 2024
By Arezki Daoud: Has the war in Ukraine deter Russia from engagement in Africa? Certainly not! We know on the security front, a growing number of African states are turning to Russia to supply them with military equipment and security services, judging by the...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
By Arezki Daoud: Russia’s influence in the Sahel is about to expand further with more cooperation deals announced by Niger and Russia during the ongoing visit to Moscow of Niger’s Prime Minister and other senior officials. Speaking to Russian media, Niger’s Defense...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
A gunfire broke out near Nitzana, Israel, along the border crossing separating Egypt and Israel. The incident, which involved more than a dozen people, resulted in the death of one person. Six people were arrested. The Egyptian authorities insist that the incident was...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
A major Nigerian delegation traveled to Moscow on Monday, 15 January 2024, in a tour that will visit Serbia, Turkey and Iran, in a bid to distant Niger from France and help it gain new partners. Continue Here Subscribe...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
– Bookmark this page. It will be updated as we get closer to the election – Election period: June/July 2024 19 January 2024 Update: In Mauritania, the 24 June 2024 presidential elections is likely to proceed without challenge to the incumbent president,...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
– Bookmark this page. It will be updated as we get closer to the election – Election period: November 2024 19 January 2024 Update: In Tunisia, local and regional elections will precede the October presidential elections. Despite the massive economic and...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
By MondAfrique: The year 2024 will be a record year for elections around the world. More than 4 billion people are called to vote on all continents. Africa is no exception: twenty countries involving 346 million citizens are organizing elections this year, from the...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Six members of the same family died on Sunday, 14 January 2024, at their home in the municipality of Ain El Melh in the wilaya of M’Sila, after being poisoned with carbon monoxide gas, said a statement from the Civil Protection Directorate. The gas emanated from...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
The former president of the opposition party, the Rassemblement pour la Culture et la Démocratie (RCD), Mohcine Belabbas, has been under judicial supervision for two years. The investigating judge at the court of Hussein Dey in Algiers finally closed the investigation...
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
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Friday, January 12, 2024
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Friday, January 12, 2024
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
On January 4, 2024, the Malian military acquired six Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. The military authorities say the drones will be used to “surveil the national territory, detect suspicious targets, track them and strike them, if necessary, with surgical precision.” ...
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month suspended sentence. He was arrested on 1 January, pending his trial, after he was accused by prosecutors of infringing on the person of Commerce Minister,...
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
The Moroccan media said the Mauritanian authorities have abruptly increase by 171% the customs duties applied to Moroccan goods entering Mauritania through the border site of El Guerguerat, at the southern tip of the Western Sahara. In its X account (formerly known as...
Monday, January 8, 2024
Farid Bencheikh, the head of gigantic police and security agency, the Director General of National Security (DGSN), was fired today and replaced by another officer, Ali Badaoui. Bencheikh had been in office since 15 March 2021. Although the presidency did not specify...
Monday, January 8, 2024
The Tunisian police reported on January 7, 2024 the dismantling of an alleged human trafficking network in the Sfax region. Authorities say the gang facilitated the illegal movement in and out of the Tunisian territory of sub-Saharan migrants. The operation consisted...
Monday, January 8, 2024
The North Africa Journal – Protestors seeking social and economic development for the Fezzan region, located in the southwestern Libya, forced the shutdown of the Sharara oil field, in a protest movement aimed at getting government attention to the plight of the...
Monday, January 8, 2024
The North Africa Journal – Qatar has demonstrated its diplomatic skills in the Middle East crisis but it has also been quietly active in other regions, such as helping reduce tensions between Mali and Algeria. To recall, the Malian government expressed its anger...
Monday, January 8, 2024
The North Africa Journal – The new year began in earnest in Burkina Faso, with fresh efforts from the government to create new units and tackle funding for volunteer militiamen. The country has been facing a devastating insurgency and has a military junta that...
Friday, January 5, 2024
Drought is wreaking havoc on North Africa’s water supply and on its agriculture. All countries in the region are facing a dangerous water outlook. For example, cash-strapped Tunisia is expected to import almost all its cereal needs. During his visit to Tunis at the...
Friday, January 5, 2024
Bread has always been a source of concern for rulers and leaders. When their prices increase, watch out for the public reaction. In history, bread riots brought down rulers who dared to make bread or its byproducts like flour hard to reach. In modern times, we often...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
There has been noticeable strain in relations between France and Morocco, with the ties between the two being once again tested this early 2024. The French resistance to Morocco’s pressure to recognize its Western Sahara plan and France’s cozy relationship with...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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Monday, December 18, 2023
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a third term with 89.6 percent of the vote in the Arab world’s most populous nation, the national election authority said Monday. The outcome of the December 10-12 poll was widely expected after the former...
Sunday, December 17, 2023
A South African paramedic who had been held by jihadists in Mali for over six years has been released, security and humanitarian sources told AFP on Sunday. Gerco van Deventer, 48, was kidnapped in Libya on November 3, 2017, on his way to a power plant construction...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Several Moroccan officials have been questioned as part of a high-profile investigation into alleged bribery by the north African state and Qatar at the European Parliament, Belgian prosecutors said Saturday. The interviews in Morocco — conducted by local...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
A section of the historic walls around the Old City of Kairouan collapsed on Saturday, killing three masons carrying out repairs on the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tunisian authorities said. Two workers were also injured in the accident, which saw a 30 metre (100...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
@northafricajournal #Egypt downs #drone in #Sinai Peninsula near #Israel ♬ original sound – The North Africa Journal The Egyptian air force shot down a drone off the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday down the coast from the Israeli border, state-linked media reported....
Thursday, December 14, 2023
The military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have banded together in a joint defence pact to fight jihadists and present a united political front in their declared aim to restore sovereignty. Against a backdrop of a bloody jihadist insurgency in West...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human rights activists, citing “ongoing judicial harassment”. After a 10-day visit to the North African country, Mary Lawlor said at a press...
