Monday, November 3, 2025
Morocco’s 2025-26 agricultural season faces mounting difficulties due to sustained drought and diminishing water resources. Despite temporary rainfall improvements earlier in 2025, the sector continues to experience below-average harvests, increased reliance on...Monday, November 3, 2025
Warda Ahmed Souleymane, a prominent member of Mauritania’s abolitionist movement, was detained by police in Nouakchott on October 31, 2025, soon after her return from a regional human rights forum in The Gambia. Her public advocacy for nonviolent civic engagement drew...Monday, November 3, 2025
A recent Fitch Solutions report, “Consumption and Household Income in Tunisia,” published October 22, 2025, finds that Tunisia’s average household purchasing power has declined significantly since 2019. The report uses 2019—the year President Kaïs Saïed was first...Monday, November 3, 2025
The UN Security Council voted on October 31, 2025, to adopt a resolution regarding Western Sahara, which was drafted by the United States and supports Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed territory. The plan, originally presented by Morocco in 2007, proposes...Monday, November 3, 2025
Thousands of employees in Tunisia’s banking, financial, and insurance sectors observed a remote strike on Monday and Tuesday, November 3–4, 2025, following a call from the General Federation of Banks, Financial Institutions, and Insurance Companies, a branch of the...Thursday, October 30, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week referred in court to a “historic” natural gas deal with Egypt, according to reporting from Israel Hayom. Over recent months, Israel and Egypt have signed formal multibillion-dollar agreements to expand Israeli gas...Thursday, October 30, 2025
A plan resurfacing in Algeria’s parliament would allow authorities to strip citizenship from Algerians who commit acts abroad deemed seriously harmful to state interests or national unity, or who demonstrably shift their loyalty to another country. Though supporters...Thursday, October 30, 2025
Morocco’s government has just approved a controversial change to its election law—setting out steep new penalties for anyone who publicly spreads rumors or “false information” that cast doubt on the credibility or transparency of national elections. The legislative...Thursday, October 30, 2025
MondAfrique: Gabès’ fight against pollution has reached historic levels, turning into a sustained protest movement with possible national consequences. Is this just a local uprising, or could it spark broader political change? Even if the unrest remains centered...Thursday, October 30, 2025
In an oped in MondAfrique, Johnny Vianney Bissakonou argues that gambling with Cameroon’s stability is reckless. He warns that the uncertainty hanging over the country threatens the entire Central African region—its immediate future, and that of the continent. A...Thursday, October 30, 2025
By MondAfrique: Mali is in the grip of an unprecedented fuel crisis—a crisis now spilling into Senegal. The vital Dakar-Bamako supply route is paralyzed, bringing freight and passenger traffic to a halt. The economic fallout is hitting Senegal hard, not only...Thursday, October 30, 2025
Cameroon’s election aftermath is fueling more street violence, Côte d’Ivoire’s political prospects remain stuck in limbo, and now Guinea is laying the groundwork for another high-stakes electoral play. In an article on elections in these three countries, Nicolas Beau...Saturday, October 25, 2025
Libya is pressing ahead with a broad-based energy revival that combines renewed foreign exploration, fresh domestic achievements, and ambitious national production goals, signaling a gradual return of confidence to a sector long constrained by political volatility and...Thursday, October 23, 2025
Morocco’s 2026 draft Finance Bill sets out one of the country’s most ambitious recruitment plans in years, creating more than 36,000 new jobs across the public sector—with the security-related departments, namely the Interior Ministry and National Defense, emerging as...Thursday, October 23, 2025
When European and Egyptian leaders convened in Brussels for their first‑ever EU–Egypt Summit on 22 October 2025, the event signaled Europe’s deepening financial and strategic commitment to Cairo. The summit concluded with the announcement of a €7.4 billion financing...Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Algeria’s judiciary has recently unveiled two major corruption cases, highlighting widespread misconduct across key government and business institutions. The investigations—one involving foreign trade approvals and another tied to public waste management—have led to...Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Mali’s capital has grown quieter in the dark. Across Bamako and beyond, entire neighborhoods now spend long nights without electricity, while daylight hours bring fuel shortages, stranded trucks, and roads worn into trenches. What began as a domestic energy crisis has...Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Over one turbulent weekend in mid‑October 2025, Mali’s army announced a series of airstrikes against jihadist strongholds just as the country’s most powerful al‑Qaeda affiliate, Jama’at Nusrat al‑Islam wal‑Muslimin (JNIM), released a new video spelling out its...Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Joint counterterrorism forces from the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) have carried out a precision operation in northern Mali, killing Boubacar Demougui Ag Almouner, one of the Islamic State in the Sahel’s most prominent field commanders. The strike took place on...Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Morocco’s tourism sector continues its post-pandemic climb, welcoming 15 million visitors between January and September 2025 — a 14% increase compared with the same period last year. The data, released by the Ministry of Tourism, signal the continued momentum of a key...Monday, October 20, 2025
Algeria says it will transition to a completely cashless economy by 2028, according to an official plan led by the Bank of Algeria and its National Payments Committee. Officials say the strategy aims to modernize the financial system and expand digital payments...Monday, October 20, 2025
Morocco’s youth-led protest movement, GenZ212, returned to the streets on Saturday, October 18, after a short pause, confirming growing frustration among young Moroccans over economic hardship, inequality, and perceived government inaction just two months before the...Monday, October 20, 2025
Mali is on the cusp of a demographic transformation. According to new projections from the country’s National Population Directorate (DNP), the population—currently around 24.7 million in 2025—is expected to soar past 51.6 million by 2050. That represents a doubling...Monday, October 20, 2025
Over the past week, Gabès, in Tunisia, has seen a dramatic escalation in social unrest centered on anti-pollution protests targeting a phosphate-processing plant. The movement—rising amid mounting health concerns linked to toxic gas releases and hazardous industrial...Sunday, October 19, 2025
The province of Skikda is experiencing anxiety after the announcement on Thursday of a death caused by diphtheria. This resurgence of a disease once believed to be eradicated has immediately placed the region on high public health alert. The local health authority...Saturday, October 18, 2025
Egypt’s foreign minister warned last week that Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have cost the country more than $9 billion in lost Suez Canal revenue, an economic blow now tied to broader U.S.-led efforts to reshape global trade routes. Speaking in...Saturday, October 18, 2025
Hospitals in Mauritania are under growing strain as an outbreak of an unidentified fever spreads through the country’s two largest cities, Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, raising alarm among residents and health professionals. Regional hospitals in both cities are...Saturday, October 18, 2025
At a recent Mediterranean Dialogues Forum in Naples, Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug delivered a sobering assessment of how Africa’s security landscape is changing — and what that means for neighboring regions and international partners....
Friday, October 17, 2025
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has announced that Libya, long divided between rival political and military factions, will host a key segment of next year’s Flintlock 2026 military exercise, its premier annual special operations training event. The 2026 iteration, known...Friday, October 17, 2025
Egypt is insisting that Nile water security is an uncompromising national priority, with the country’s leadership rejecting any attempts at political bargaining on its access to the river. The latest remarks, delivered by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at...Friday, October 17, 2025
France has signaled a possible thaw in its strained relationship with Algeria after several tense months marked by diplomatic disputes and public confrontations. In a gesture seen by observers as an effort to ease tensions, the French government recently directed its...Friday, October 17, 2025
Egypt has raised domestic fuel prices sharply as part of a multi-faceted effort to stabilize the country’s economy amidst persistent fiscal pressure and regional turbulence. Effective October 17, 2025, all grades of gasoline, diesel, and compressed natural gas...Friday, October 17, 2025
In a move reflecting the deepening security alignment between Algeria and Tunisia, the two neighbors signed a new defense cooperation agreement in Algiers on October 7, 2025, aimed at strengthening joint military capabilities and border security coordination. The...Thursday, October 16, 2025
Residents of Chami, a mining hub in western Mauritania, have taken to the streets to protest severe and prolonged water shortages that have left parts of the city without running water for days. Demonstrations erupted on October 15 outside the local offices of the...Thursday, October 16, 2025
Mauritania is contending with concurrent outbreaks of diphtheria and Rift Valley fever that have left at least 36 people dead in recent weeks. The twin crises expose persistent gaps in public health capacity at a moment when the country is also battling the seasonal...Tuesday, October 14, 2025
A profile by Olivier Vallée and Nicolas Beau [MondAfrique]: Maminiaina Ravatomanga, “Mamy,” is a wealthy businessman and simultaneous unofficial adviser and supporter of President Andry Rajoelina. The two gravitated toward each other in 2008 as their respective...Tuesday, October 14, 2025
By MondAfrique: On October 10, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sounded the alarm: around 4 million people are currently displaced in the Sahel, an unprecedented figure. The UNHCR statement highlights the scale of the humanitarian crisis,...Tuesday, October 14, 2025
The GenZ212 protest movement in Morocco, which emerged following the deaths of eight women in an Agadir hospital, has shown both dramatic growth and resilience through new digital organizing strategies. While the initial burst of nightly demonstrations has subsided,...Tuesday, October 14, 2025
The departure of France’s interior minister Bruno Retailleau marks a substantial moment against the backdrop of turbulent Algeria–France relations. Retailleau’s short tenure at the Ministry of the Interior was punctuated by controversial policies and combative...Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Beginning October 23, 2025, citizens of seven African countries seeking business or tourist visas to the United States will face a new hurdle: the requirement to post refundable bonds of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000, with the exact amount determined by consular...
