Monday, February 20, 2023
By Hillary Orinde: The African Union insisted on Sunday it had “zero tolerance” for undemocratic changes of power and vowed to push through a continent-wide free trade deal as it wrapped up a two-day summit. Leaders of the 55-nation bloc met in the...
Monday, February 20, 2023
Moroccan trade union activists protested Sunday in the capital Rabat and other cities to denounce surging costs of food and fuel, defying a government ban against marches. Protesters from the Democratic Labour Confederation (CDT) staged rallies outside their offices...
Monday, February 20, 2023
By Joel Olatunde Agoi: Like millions of fellow Nigerians, Rotimi Bankole says he wants to use Saturday’s presidential elections to push for a better life in his oil-rich but crisis-ridden country. Double digit inflation, weak economic growth and mounting...
Monday, February 20, 2023
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded Monday in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 tremor which left more than 41,000 dead in the country, the disaster response agency AFAD said. The quake hit the town of Defne at 8:04 pm...
Monday, February 20, 2023
The mother of prominent French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui has been released from custody but remains under court supervision, a rights group said Monday, a week after her arrest. Bouraoui had been banned from leaving Algeria after being sentenced to two years...
Monday, February 20, 2023
The head of Tunisia’s dissolved parliament is facing a new police inquiry, his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party said Monday, days after a string of arrests mainly targeting opposition political figures. Rached Ghannouchi, President Kais Saied’s 81-year-old...
Friday, February 10, 2023
Rescuers found a six-year-old boy alive under the rubble on Friday, four days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 22,700 people in Syria and Turkey, an AFP correspondent reported. Emergency workers in Syria’s rebel-held northwest pulled shell-shocked...
Friday, February 10, 2023
Police on Friday detained a Belgian European Parliament member for questioning after searching a bank safe belonging to him as part of a probe into a bribery scandal that has rocked the EU. Belgium’s federal prosecutors said “several raids” were...
Friday, February 10, 2023
By Amaury Hauchard: After fleeing the jihadists who threatened their remote village, Aichata Hassan had no idea that another mighty challenge lay ahead: proving to the authorities that her 12-year-old daughter existed. Like countless other children in Niger, Nadia has...
Friday, February 10, 2023
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday offered support for Mauritania in the fight against jihadism in the Sahel, saying he respected the country’s position in the Ukraine war. His Mauritanian counterpart stressed his country’s “respect...
Friday, February 10, 2023
Criminals in northern Ghana tried to blow up a bridge using explosives for the first time in a region where the government fears growing violent spillover from a jihadist war across the border in Burkina Faso, a top official said. Ghana along with Gulf of Guinea...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday pledged assistance to West African states battling jihadists, as Moscow seeks to expand its influence on a continent in a diplomatic tug-of-war between global powers. Lavrov hailed the alliance that has been forged...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
An Egyptian court sentenced one man to death and 11 to life imprisonment after convicting them of joining a “terrorist group” linked to the Islamic State group, state media reported Wednesday. The same counter-terrorism court in Cairo also handed down...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
By Valentin Bontemps: In limbo for years, plans for a tunnel linking Spain and Morocco have been officially revived by Madrid and Rabat although the dream of an underwater rail link faces multiple obstacles. What is the project? The idea was first raised in 1979 by...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
An Algerian court has sentenced the brother of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to 12 years in prison for “corruption” and money laundering, local media reported Wednesday. The verdict against Said Bouteflika — already serving time in a...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups called for their reinstatement into two key regional blocs on Thursday following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The top diplomats of Mali, Guinea and Burkina...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
By Abdellah Cheballah: Algeria recalled on Wednesday its envoy to France “for consultations” after Paris intervened to fly out via Tunisia an activist and journalist who is wanted by Algiers, the presidency said. The Amira Bouraoui affair threatens renewed...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
The Moroccan parliament decried Wednesday an “unjust campaign” against it at the European Parliament ahead of a hearing in Brussels over the North African country’s alleged use of Pegasus spyware. The European Parliament is set to hear from experts,...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved of their functions on Wednesday, the country’s junta-run government said. The four others are the heads of military security, the gendarmerie...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday on the heels of a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The talks brought together ministers from Mali, Guinea and Burkina —...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Ten people were killed when a makeshift gold mine collapsed in western Burkina Faso, a miners’ association said on Thursday. “In the early hours of February 8, miners… were trapped” near the town of Hounde, according to Abasse Derra, an...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Dozens of Tunisian civil society organisations,parties and political figures on Thursday voiced their “full support” for the powerful UGTT trade union, accusing President Kaid Saied of “targeting” it. The top UGTT official for highway workers,...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
A Moroccan man sustained serious injuries after setting himself on fire outside the Moroccan consulate in Madrid on Tuesday, police and diplomatic sources told AFP. He was badly burnt and emergency services took him to hospital. It took place in a northeastern...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday fired the country’s top diplomat — the fourth minister to lose his post this year in the politically divided nation. Nabil Ammar, Tunisia’s ambassador to the European Union, will replace Othman Jerandi as...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
At least 18 people have been killed in two attacks in Burkina Faso, sources briefed on the incidents told AFP on Sunday, as violence rages in the Sahel nation. The country faces a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015, with thousands of...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
By Remi Banet with Youssef Karwashan in Aleppo: Rescuers in Turkey and Syria battled bitter cold Tuesday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 7,800 people. The latest toll showed 5,894 people killed...
Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
Three children died and 11 were injured, two of them seriously, when a school made of straw and wood caught fire in central Niger on Monday, local officials said. The fire broke out in a classroom in a school in Zinder and spread swiftly, fanned by the harmattan...
Monday, February 6, 2023
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
A policeman and a civilian were killed and seven were wounded in an attack in jihadist-torn eastern Mali, officials said Wednesday. The attack occurred Tuesday evening at a checkpoint in San, a town some 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of the capital Bamako and about...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
A powerful Tunisian trade union Wednesday condemned the arrest of one of its top officials, saying it was linked to President Kais Saied warning workers against striking for “political ends”. The arrest of Anis Kaabi, the UGTT’s top official for...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
A Malian court has sentenced a man to death over the 2019 killing of three peacekeepers in the south of the country, the UN mission in Mali said on Wednesday. The Bamako criminal court convicted the accused — who was not named — on Tuesday of acts of...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s most prestigious educational institution, has called for the boycott of Swedish and Dutch products after far-right protesters destroyed Korans in those countries. Al-Azhar, in a statement issued Wednesday, called...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
By Delphine Touitou: France said on Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador from Burkina Faso “for consultations,” a day after agreeing to demands to pull its troops from the country. Around 400 French special forces are deployed in the deeply...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Egypt and India announced Thursday a “strategic partnership” to increase trade by billions of dollars and strengthen diplomatic ties, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi concluded a visit to New Delhi. Facing a worsening economic crisis, Egypt is scrambling...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
France said Wednesday it will withdraw its contingent of hundreds of troops stationed in Burkina Faso within a month, after the junta ruling the Sahel country demanded the pullout. The withdrawal will mark the latest scaling down of France’s military presence in...
