Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Tunis, May 16, 2019 – Tunisia on Thursday rejected a United Nations claim that an arms expert arrested in the North African country has diplomatic immunity and should be released. Moncef Kartas, a member of the UN panel of experts on Libya, is a Tunisian-German...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Algiers, May 15, 2019 – At least 24 police officers have been wounded in clashes with protesters rallying against unemployment in central Algeria, state media reported Wednesday. Demonstrators in the central Tinerkouk area have been blocking access to an oil...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 – Gunmen killed 17 Niger soldiers in an ambush near the border with Mali, a security source said Wednesday, adding 11 were still missing a day later. The attack occurred Tuesday near the village of Tongo Tongo in the western Tillaberi region where...
Monday, May 13, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Brussels, May 13, 2019 (AFP) – The EU on Monday warned Turkey not to press ahead with exploratory drilling for oil and gas off Cyprus, calling the plan illegal and vowing to “respond appropriately”. The bloc’s diplomatic chief Federica...
Friday, May 10, 2019
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: To their chagrin, the Algerian regime’s hopes that the anti-government protest movement would die down in the month of Ramadan did not materialize. Once again, this unintelligent regime has poorly calculated everything, and that should...
Thursday, May 9, 2019
The northwestern province of Sidi Bel Abbes is the mirror of what is occurring across the entire country as social unrest escalates amid the political gridlock in Algiers. Various protest actions have been occurring since 4 May 2019 in different municipalities of the...
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
In this podcast, recorded 7 May 2019, MEA Risk analysts Alessandro Bruno and Arezki Daoud discuss the state of affairs in Libya as fighting continues in Tripoli and as Ramadan begins. [Download audio here | on iTunes | on Google Play | on Android devices | on Spotify...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Algiers, May 7, 2019 – Thousands of Algerian students joined the first rally of Ramadan on Tuesday, pressing on with weeks of protests against the ruling elite after president Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit. Wearing national flags over their shoulders, crowds...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tripoli, May 7, 2019 – Troops loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar said Tuesday they shot down a warplane and captured its foreign “mercenary” pilot near the capital Tripoli. The Mirage F1 was downed in Al-Hira region, 70 kilometres (43...
Monday, May 6, 2019
