Thursday, April 25, 2019
Maputo, April 25, 2019 – A powerful cyclone made landfall in northern Mozambique Thursday evening, barely a month after a super-storm slammed into the country’s centre, leaving hundreds dead and causing devastation. Cyclone Kenneth hit the north coast of...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Paris, April 25, 2019 – Eight international NGOs including Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders demanded Thursday that France suspend the delivery of boats to Libya’s coastguard on concerns they would be used to intercept migrants. French...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Lagos, April 25, 2019 – Pirates off Nigeria’s oil-rich south have stormed a small oil tanker, kidnapping six sailors, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on Thursday, the latest in a string of such attacks. The Apecus, a Palau-flagged petroleum...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Rabat, April 25, 2019 – Over 70 demonstrators were left wounded Thursday after Moroccan police used water cannon to disperse a rally in the capital by thousands of contract teachers protesting over their employment terms. Teachers chanting “Social...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, the Chief Executive of Sonatrach has just been fired. Interim president of the Algerian government dimissed him and replaced him with Rachid Hachichi. Ould Kaddour saw his support system completely crumble and has long been in the chopping...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Algiers, April 23, 2019 – Thousands of Algerian students marched Tuesday through the capital calling for the overthrow of the “system” and trials for members of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s inner circle. The rallies came as state...
Monday, April 22, 2019
Bamako, April 22, 2019 (AFP) – Mali’s president on Monday named economy and finance minister Boubou Cisse as the new prime minister tasked with forming a “broad government” to stem bloodshed in the country, an official statement said. Cisse is...
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 (AFP) – Libya’s unity government on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for strongman general Khalifa Haftar for allegedly ordering deadly air strikes against civilian areas. Six of Haftar’s officers were also named in the...
Monday, April 15, 2019
Tripoli, April 15, 2019 – At least 147 people have been killed and 614 wounded in the offensive launched on April 4 by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar to take the capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization said Monday. The clashes have displaced...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Rabat, April 10, 2019 – Human Rights Watch on Wednesday warned Rabat over what it called the “shocking” Moroccan court of appeal rulings against 42 leaders of a protest movement. “The shocking appeals verdict upholding up to 20-year...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Rabat, April 12, 2019 – A Moroccan court has sentenced a Swiss citizen arrested in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian hikers to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges, his lawyer said Friday. Kahlil Idriss said the man, identified only as Nicolas...
Friday, April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019 – More than 8,000 people have fled fighting around Libya’s capital, half of whom have been displaced over the last two days, the United Nations said Friday. “Displacements from areas affected by the clashes in an around Tripoli...
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Cairo, April 9, 2019 – A teen suicide bomber killed four members of Egypt’s security forces and three civilians Tuesday in restive North Sinai, the interior ministry said, with the Islamic State group claiming the attack. “The suicide bomber aged...
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Rome, April 11, 2019 – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned Thursday that the deteriorating situation in Libya could create a humanitarian crisis and increase the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. “Ongoing fighting and a rising number...
