Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The chairman of Turkish Airlines said Monday that the company will make a final decision on plans for a record-breaking order of 600 aircraft in two months. The airline is in talks with US aircraft maker Boeing and its European rival Airbus to purchase 400...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Turkish authorities on Tuesday seized and jailed a 16-year-old youth for drawing a moustache on an election campaign poster showing re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, media reports said. Several media close to the opposition, including daily newspapers BirGun,...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Several Nigerian soldiers died in an attack on a military convoy in the Lake Chad region by jihadist fighters aligned with the Islamic State group, security forces said Tuesday. The convoy was hit by militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP)...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
A leading rights group urged Nigeria’s army on Tuesday to take responsibility for a drone strike that killed 39 civilians in January, calling for compensation for the victims and their families. The army eventually admitted ordering the strike near the town of...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 30 ethnic Fulani herders near northeast Nigeria’s Lake Chad, demanding ransom for their release, fishermen and the head of an anti-jihadist militia told AFP Tuesday. The militants in eight boats stormed the fishing and herding...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Arezki’s Take @arezkid#1Country1Minute: #Turkey voted #Erdogan for another term, #investors hate it ♬ original sound – Arezki By Fulya Ozerkan: The Turkish lira sank to a new low against the dollar on Wednesday, more than a week after the re-election of...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Turkey’s journalists’ association on Wednesday criticised fines imposed by the country’s media regulator on four pro-opposition television channels during the election campaign, saying they “penalise the public’s right to...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Envoys of rival Libyan factions have agreed on the legal steps to hold much delayed presidential and legislative elections in the conflict-scarred nation, both sides said early Wednesday. Election were due to be held in December 2021 but were never organised as...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian aid, according to an NGO report published on Monday. This represents a 172 percent rise on 2016, the US International Rescue Committee said in its...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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Sunday, June 4, 2023
Egypt deployed three tugboats Sunday to tow away an oil tanker that had broken down and caused brief delays in the Suez Canal, authorities in charge of the vital waterway said. Traffic in both directions returned to normal after a brief disruption when the...
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Hundreds demonstrated Sunday in Morocco’s economic capital Casablanca to protest against the surging cost of living in the North African country and urge action by the government, AFP correspondents said. Protesters from the Democratic Labour Confederation (CDT)...
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
The Tunisian coastguard Friday recovered the body of a young girl thought to have drowned when two vessels carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean, a journalist working with AFP said. The body, dressed in a pink jumpsuit and grey woollen cap, was discovered by a...
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt’s security forces were killed Saturday in a rare exchange of fire near the border between the two countries, official sources from both sides said. The Israeli army said an Egyptian assailant shot dead two soldiers...
Friday, June 2, 2023
Gunshots rang out in Libya’s capital on Monday following hours of fighting between two armed groups both aligned with the divided country’s UN-backed government, local medics and media reported. Several residents in Tripoli were lightly wounded in the...
Friday, June 2, 2023
The UN said Thursday more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees had fled to neighbouring Chad since the conflict in Sudan broke out over six weeks ago, bringing the tally to more than half a million. Khartoum and other parts of Sudan have been gripped by warfare between the...
Friday, June 2, 2023
Forces of Libya’s Tripoli-based government launched drone strikes against suspected smuggling sites in the country’s west Friday as they pursued a campaign begun over a week ago, local media reported. “Strikes targeted Zuwara” some 120...
Friday, June 2, 2023
By Alexandre Martins Lopes with Louise Dewast in Abuja and Aminu Abubakar in Kano: Commuting to work in Lagos, Nigeria’s megacity of some 20 million people, has long been a hellish affair, but a surge in petrol prices is making it even worse. Fuel prices have...
Friday, June 2, 2023
Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at his prison conditions, stopped taking water Thursday, a rights group said. Behairy, who began his hunger strike in March after five years in custody,...
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Two civilians and at least 50 “terrorists” were killed in jihadist-hit northern Burkina Faso when a food convoy being escorted by troops was ambushed, the armed forces said on Thursday. The incident happened on Wednesday near Tibou in Loroum province...
Thursday, June 1, 2023
One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a result of a sandstorm that swept through Egypt’s capital, state media reported. The storm “crushed” four vehicles on the October 6...
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Thursday proposed taxing the North African country’s wealthiest citizens as a way of avoiding what he has called the “diktats” of the International Monetary Fund. Despite reaching an agreement in principle last...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Fighting flared again in Sudan on Tuesday despite the latest ceasefire pledges of the two warring generals, meant to allow desperately needed aid to reach besieged civilians. US and Saudi mediators said late Monday that the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Photo: PM Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla: Burkina Faso’s prime minister on Tuesday ruled out negotiations with jihadist insurgents who control swathes of the country, while suggesting that security risks could delay the country’s return to civilian...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
The Mauritanian government cut internet access for mobile phones Wednesday, a day after protests over the death of a young man after a brief period in police custody. Despite the loss of internet access for mobile phones, fixed lines were still functional and business...
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Tunisia’s national guard on Friday announced the arrest of a suspected Islamic State group member in possession of explosives who was planning “four simultaneous terrorist operations” in the country. The suspect was arrested in Tunisia’s second...
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Clashes between herders and farmers have killed at least 10 people in southern Chad, a region regularly troubled by such violence, a local governor told AFP on Saturday. The fertile border areas of Chad, Cameroon and Central African Republic have been gripped by...
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, discovered in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, the government said on Saturday. The vast burial site, at the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, is a UNESCO...
Thursday, May 25, 2023
A cargo ship ran aground Thursday in Egypt’s Suez Canal before it was quickly refloated without interrupting traffic, the authority in charge of the vital waterway said. The Hong Kong-flagged Xin Hai Tong 23 bulk carrier was refloated after “a sudden...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Arezki’s Opinion By Tanya Willmer: The families of Tunisian opposition figures detained in a government crackdown filed a case with Africa’s human rights court on Wednesday seeking the immediate release of their loved ones. Since early February, the authorities...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Arezki’s Opinion By Rim Taher: Oil-rich but war-scarred Libya has for years been ruled by two rival governments, but now some analysts see faint signs of progress toward reconciliation between them. They point to discord within one of the camps, based in the east and...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Arezki’s Opinion Algerian opposition figure Karim Tabbou has been taken into custody for unknown reasons, reports said Wednesday, with his brother saying plainclothes police officers had detained him at his home. Tabbou, 48, was one of the most recognisable faces...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
More than a dozen people, thought to be mostly shepherds, have been killed in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Monday. On Sunday “several dozen terrorists attacked the outskirts of Kompienga” — the capital of...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Welcome to this episode of North Africa and the Sahel week-in-review, for the period ending Saturday, 20th of May. Today is the 22nd of May and greetings to all. So the week in the northern half of Africa ended with a lot of political tension in the Maghreb region,...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Mauritania Elections By Hademine Ould Sadi: The ruling party in Mauritania scored a comfortable victory in last week’s legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday, a litmus test for the veteran head of state ahead of next...
