Monday, September 4, 2023
Gabon’s coup leader vowed after being sworn in as interim president on Monday to restore civilian rule through “free, transparent and credible elections” after a transition and amnesty prisoners of conscience. In a speech after taking the oath of...
Saturday, September 2, 2023
A Polisario Front commander and three Sahrawi fighters were killed Friday in the disputed Western Sahara as a United States delegation visited the region, the official Saharawi news agency SPS reported. The Western Sahara dispute dates back to 1975, when colonial...
Friday, September 1, 2023
Tunisian police arrested four men, including a fisherman, on suspicion of maritime piracy after the robbery of a boat taking Tunisian migrants to Italy, an official said on Thursday. Police intervened and arrested the four Tunisians on Saturday after one of the...
Friday, September 1, 2023
Niger braced Friday for a weekend of planned anti-French rallies as tensions mount between the country’s new military rulers and its traditional ally. A coalition of civil society groups opposed to the presence of French forces in Niger has called a three-day...
Friday, September 1, 2023
France on Friday confirmed one of its citizens had been killed and another was jailed, a day after media reports said two tourists were shot dead by coastguards when they strayed across Algeria’s maritime border with Morocco. Moroccan media reported Thursday...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
A German court gave a Moroccan man a suspended sentence Thursday after finding him guilty of spying on supporters of a Moroccan protest group. The 36-year-old was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months, a spokeswoman for the higher regional court in...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
People in the central African state of Gabon awaited a steer on their future on Thursday after rebel army officers brought the curtain down on 55 years of rule by the Bongo family. President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose father Omar had ruled for more than four decades,...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Niger’s new military rulers have stripped France’s ambassador of diplomatic immunity and ordered police to expel him, according to a letter seen Thursday by AFP, a move that ratchets up tensions with the country’s traditional ally. The envoy...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Two holidaymakers jet skiing in Morocco were shot dead by the Algerian coastguard when they strayed across the maritime border between two Mediterranean countries, Moroccan media reported on Thursday. Bilal Kissi and Abdelali Merchouer, both French-Moroccan dual...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Algeria seeks six-month transition for coup-hit Niger Algeria’s foreign minister on Tuesday proposed a six-month transitional plan for neighbouring Niger, whose coup leader seeks a far longer timeline back to democracy. Ahmed Attaf gave his suggested...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Algeria on Thursday blasted Switzerland for indicting its former defence minister on charges of committing crimes against humanity in the 1990s during the North African country’s civil war. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland said Tuesday it had...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Rebel officers in Gabon announced Wednesday they had seized power following disputed elections in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled the oil-rich state for more than 55 years, had been declared winner. The claimed takeover sparked condemnation...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Mali has adopted a new mining code allowing the state to take up to 30 percent stakes in new mineral projects and collect more revenues from the vital industry. Junta leader Assimi Goita signed the code into law on Monday, his office announced on social media Tuesday....
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Libya’s internationally recognised prime minister has sacked his top diplomat after she met her Israeli counterpart, with news of the encounter triggering protests in a country that does not recognise Israel. Oil-rich Libya, which plunged into chaos after...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Sudan’s army chief on Tuesday visited Egypt on his first trip abroad since the outbreak of war in April, with the latest violence killing dozens of civilians in battle-scarred Darfur. As Abdel Fattah al-Burhan headed for talks with key ally Egyptian President...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime risk triggering “catastrophic” humanitarian effects. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said it had revised contingency planning for Niger...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Former Algerian defence minister Khaled Nezzar has been indicted in Switzerland on charges of committing crimes against humanity in the 1990s during the civil war, state prosecutors said Tuesday. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) said it had...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced an Algerian-Canadian researcher and Algerian journalist each to two years in prison, one of their lawyers said. Raouf Farrah, 36, and Mustapha Bendjama, 32, were convicted of publishing classified information by the court in the...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Former rebels in northern Mali on Tuesday accused the armed forces of carrying out new strikes on their positions, reflecting mounting tensions in the flashpoint region. A spokesman for the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) told an AFP reporter that the armed...
Friday, August 25, 2023
Despite the reported death of the Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Moscow has every interest in continuing his Wagner paramilitary group’s activities in Africa, experts told AFP on Thursday. Russia has been outsourcing activities in Africa to Wagner...
Friday, August 25, 2023
War and hunger threaten to “consume” all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, the UN warned Friday, decrying a dire lack of aid funding. After four months of a bloody power struggle between Sudan’s army...
Friday, August 25, 2023
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will be tried in 2025 over allegations he took money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund one of his election campaigns, prosecutors said Friday. The trial is set to hear explosive evidence that the rightwinger,...
Friday, August 25, 2023
A leader of the Islamic State (IS) group who allegedly planned and sponsored three deadly attacks in the Libyan capital Tripoli in 2018 has been captured, the country’s prime minister said Thursday. “Our forces apprehended on Tuesday a leader of the...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Russian military officials including Moscow’s deputy defence minister arrived in Libya on Tuesday after receiving an invitation from pro-Moscow military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Haftar, who backs the country’s eastern administration, is close to...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Algeria’s top diplomat began a tour of West African countries Wednesday in a bid to find a solution following the coup in neighbouring Niger, where Algiers opposes any military intervention. Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf was “mandated by President...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country’s 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind bars, walked free from prison Saturday following a presidential pardon. Douma, now 37, was a leading activist in the 2011 uprising that toppled...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Floods this week have caused the death of 31 people in politically battered Niger, including eight following the collapse of dwellings and and 23 by drowning. On August 21, 2023, the General Directorate of Civil Protection (DGPC) said it recorded 88,516 victims...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
By Aymeric Vincenot: The African Union said Tuesday that it had suspended Niger’s membership in the wake of a military coup, but responded cautiously to a threatened military operation to restore its ousted president, as Nigerien TV said 12 soldiers were killed...
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have killed 13 people including three soldiers in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, local militias told AFP Sunday. Gunmen launched a predawn attack on Saturday on a base in Wulari, a village near the town of Konduga in Borno...
Sunday, August 13, 2023
By Arezki Daoud: As I have been saying for a while, the Malian junta is leveraging its honeymoon period with Russia’s Wagner group and the withdrawal of the UN peacekeepers to unleash mayhem against the northern Touareg tribes. The army and Wagner mercenaries...
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Temperatures in Morocco have for the first time on record topped 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit), the North African country’s meteorological service said Sunday amid a scorching heatwave. The meteorological station in the southern coastal city of Agadir...
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Regional rebels in Mali who signed a peace deal in 2015 have withdrawn their representatives from the capital, a move signalling a widening rift with the country’s ruling military, one of their leaders said on Thursday. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA)...
Saturday, August 12, 2023
A rubber dinghy brings back dozens of people from one of six boats the Tunisian coastguard intercepted in a 24-hour period off Sfax, a migrant launchpad for Europe. “Our priority is to save lives,” said Mouhamed Borhen Chamtouri, a commander of...
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Burkina Faso’s junta-led government has suspended one of the country’s most popular radio stations after it broadcast an interview deemed “insulting” to Niger’s new military leaders. Radio Omega was immediately suspended on Thursday...
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Niger’s detained president was seen by his doctor on Saturday, his entourage said, amid mounting concern for his condition, while West Africa’s regional bloc scrapped a crisis meeting on the coup that deposed him. Mohamed Bazoum, 63, was toppled on July...
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded at their border, many of them for over a month. The migrants, primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, had been driven to the...
Thursday, August 10, 2023
West African leaders will make negotiations with the military leaders who have seized control in Niger the “bedrock” of its attempts to defuse the crisis, stepping back from a threat of military intervention to restore the elected government. “It is...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Four dead, 51 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia At least 11 migrants have died in a shipwreck off Tunisia’s coast and 44 others are missing, a judicial sources said Monday, revising an earlier toll of four fatalities. “Seven new bodies have been recovered...
