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...Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Algeria’s state-owned energy company Sonatrach has signed a $5.4 billion exploration and production agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Midad Energy North Africa, Algerian state television reported on Monday, October 13. The deal, structured as a production-sharing...Friday, October 10, 2025
North Africa is facing an acute mental health challenge, with three of its countries—Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya—ranking among the ten African nations with the highest rates of depressive disorders. The findings, published by The African Exponent, highlight stark...Friday, October 10, 2025
Algeria’s draft finance law for 2026 marks a significant increase in public expenditure, with total spending projected to exceed 17.6 trillion dinars. This plan comes amid continued global economic uncertainty, weak international trade, and the persistence of...Friday, October 10, 2025
Algeria is set to approve a substantial increase in defense spending for 2026, marking the largest allocation ever proposed for its armed forces. According to the draft finance law for the coming year, the national defense budget will exceed 3,205 billion Algerian...Friday, October 10, 2025
A new rule requiring small and medium-sized Tunisian businesses to provide a 20% bank guarantee for service contracts is stirring concern about economic paralysis among local entrepreneurs. According to a recent study from the Institut arabe des chefs d’entreprises...Monday, October 6, 2025
Morocco increased its imports of Russian petroleum products in August, defying ongoing Western sanctions on Russian energy exports, according to a report from Moroccan outlet Hespress. In total, African nations imported about 994,000 tons of Russian petroleum products...Monday, October 6, 2025
Remittances from Tunisians living abroad reached 6.5 billion dinars (approximately $2.05 billion USD) by the end of September 2025, up from 6 billion dinars (about $1.89 billion USD) during the same period last year, according to figures released by the Central Bank...Monday, October 6, 2025
Authorities in Mali have extended the curfew in Kayes for another month, following a series of violent attacks attributed to armed groups operating in the region. The nightly movement restriction, running from midnight to 5 a.m., is designed to limit nighttime travel...Monday, October 6, 2025
In Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s bustling fishing hub, the docks don’t hum the way they once did. Factories that once packed and shipped thousands of tons of fish now stand eerily quiet, and conversations among local workers tend to spiral back to just one question: Where...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
أعلنت شركة الخطوط الجوية الجزائرية، الناقل الوطني، عن توسيع شبكتها للرحلات الداخلية، وذلك عقب زيادة خدماتها الدولية سابقاً، من خلال إضافة 84 رحلة أسبوعياً عبر مختلف الخطوط الوطنية. وأوضحت الشركة أن هذا التوسّع، المقرر دخوله حيز التنفيذ في 26 أكتوبر، يهدف إلى تلبية...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
تواصل السلطات القضائية في الجزائر إصدار أحكام في إطار التحقيقات المتعلقة بفضائح الفساد التي تعود إلى عهد الرئيس السابق عبد العزيز بوتفليقة. فقد حكمت محكمة الجنايات بالجزائر العاصمة، يوم الثلاثاء، على وزير العمل الأسبق حسان تيجاني حدّام ومطور عقاري بالسجن سبع سنوات،...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
أعلنت السلطات الصحية في السنغال عن تفشي وباءين في آن واحد: جدري القرود (Mpox) وحمى الوادي المتصدع. وحتى الآن لم تُسجل أي وفيات بين حالات جدري القرود، فيما أُبلغ عن ثماني وفيات مرتبطة بحمى الوادي المتصدع. تم تسجيل خمس حالات لجدري القرود في منطقة داكار منذ 22 أغسطس،...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
للسنة الثانية على التوالي، يضطر نظام التعليم العام في النيجر إلى تعديل تقويمه الدراسي بسبب استمرار هطول الأمطار. فقد أعلنت الحكومة أن موعد انطلاق العام الدراسي 2025-2026، الذي كان مقرراً في الأول من أكتوبر، سيتم تأجيله أسبوعين. ويؤثر هذا القرار على ما يقارب ثلاثة...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
أمرت هيئة تحكيم دولية النيجر بوقف أي بيع أو تحويل لمخزون اليورانيوم الذي يقف في صلب نزاع حاد مع مجموعة التعدين الفرنسية أورانو، وذلك عقب تأميم البلاد مؤخراً لمنجم سومير. الإجراء المؤقت الصادر عن المركز الدولي لتسوية منازعات الاستثمار (ICSID) يقيّد بشكل مؤقت قدرة...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
أغلقت حكومة النيجر 400 شركة أمن خاصة بموجب مرسوم وزاري، في خطوة تهدف إلى إعادة هيكلة شاملة للقطاع وفرض شروط أكثر صرامة ورقابة أوضح على صناعة اتسمت سابقاً بالغموض القانوني وتعددية الفاعلين. الإجراء، الذي وقّعه وزير الداخلية محمد تومبا في 18 سبتمبر، يطبق معايير قانونية...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
تصاعدت التوترات بين مالي وفرنسا بعد أن قامت باريس بطرد دبلوماسيين ماليين اثنين وتعليق الأنشطة المشتركة لمكافحة الإرهاب، وذلك رداً على اعتقال مواطن فرنسي الشهر الماضي تتهمه السلطات المالية بالتآمر مع مسؤولين محليين لزعزعة قيادة المرحلة الانتقالية. وأكدت السلطات في مالي...Wednesday, October 1, 2025
شهد المغرب خلال الليالي الماضية موجة من التظاهرات التي قادها الشباب، حيث اندلعت مسيرات واعتصامات في ما لا يقل عن عشر مدن، وأسفرت عن عشرات الاعتقالات بعد أن نشرت السلطات وجوداً أمنياً مكثفاً لتفريق التجمعات. هذه التعبئة، التي يقودها بشكل رئيسي شباب من جيل...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
A wave of youth-driven demonstrations swept through Morocco over the past several nights, with rallies unfolding in at least ten cities and dozens of arrests reported as authorities deployed heavy police presence to disband gatherings. The mobilization, driven largely...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Tensions between Mali and France have escalated after Paris expelled two Malian diplomats and suspended joint counterterrorism activities, responding to last month’s arrest of a French national whom the Malian government accuses of conspiring with local officials to...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Niger’s government has shuttered 400 private security companies by ministerial decree, implementing a sweeping sector-wide reset in an effort to impose tighter conditions and oversight on an industry previously marked by legal ambiguity and fragmented operations....Tuesday, September 30, 2025
An international arbitration panel has ordered Niger to halt any sale or transfer of uranium currently at the center of a high-stakes dispute with French mining group Orano, following the country’s recent nationalization of the Somaïr mine. The provisional...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
For the second year in a row, Niger’s public education system is adjusting its calendar in response to extended rainfall. The government has announced that the start of the 2025-26 school year, originally set for October 1, will be postponed by two weeks. Nearly three...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Senegalese health authorities have announced two concurrent epidemics: monkeypox (Mpox) and Rift Valley fever. So far, no deaths have been reported among monkeypox cases, but eight fatalities have been attributed to Rift Valley fever. Five monkeypox cases have been...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Algerian authorities continue to hand down verdicts stemming from investigations into corruption scandals dating back to the presidency of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. On Tuesday, a criminal court in Algiers sentenced former Minister of Labor Hassen Tidjani Haddam and a real...Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Algerian state airline carrier Air Algérie is expanding its domestic flight network, following its previous international service increases, with the addition of 84 weekly flights across Algeria’s national routes. The company says this expansion, effective October 26,...Monday, September 29, 2025
Health authorities in Mauritania and Senegal are grappling with a new outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a mosquito-borne viral disease that primarily affects livestock but can also infect humans. On September 29, Mauritania’s Ministry of Health confirmed three...Monday, September 29, 2025
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is now facing the prospect of prison, after being sentenced on September 25, 2025, to five years in jail by a Paris court in the case involving alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign. The verdict includes a...Monday, September 29, 2025
Algeria’s e-commerce market is growing steadily, supported by increased internet access, a large youth population, and wider use of digital payments. In 2025, market estimates value the sector at approximately $1.9 billion, with up to 200,000 active online merchants... 
