Monday, December 5, 2022
By Françoise Kadri: Germany is becoming a key destination for disillusioned young Tunisians despite a language barrier and the North African nation’s long history of ties with France. Europe’s biggest economy, with its low birth rate, is crying out for...
Monday, December 5, 2022
By Serge Daniel and Emmanuel Anule: West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups, a senior official said. Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States had decided to act to...
Monday, December 5, 2022
Six civilians, four of them teachers, were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in southern Burkina Faso close to the border with Ghana, security officials and local sources said on Monday. Gunmen “opened fire on a group” in the town of Bittou on Sunday,...
Monday, December 5, 2022
By Ali Abba Kaya A Chadian court has handed jail terms of between two and three years to 262 people who were arrested after deadly protests in October, the public prosecutor said on Monday. A total of 401 people had been put on trial in Koro Toro prison, a...
Monday, December 5, 2022
Protesters turned out in force to march in Morocco’s capital Rabat Sunday to denounce the “high cost of living and repression”, amid surging inflation and rising social discontent. “The people want lower prices… The people want to...
Monday, December 5, 2022
In a rare public show of protest in Egypt, “thousands of lawyers” staged a demonstration at their union in central Cairo Monday, prominent lawyer Tarek al-Awady said. After a smaller protest was held Thursday, lawyers assembled again in droves Monday to...
Friday, December 2, 2022
Mali’s communications authority said Thursday it had lifted the suspension of one of the Sahel country’s main news channels, taken off the air a month ago over criticism of the junta. The channel had on October 13 been put on notice over a September 30...
Thursday, December 1, 2022
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
A French judge on Wednesday allowed European aerospace firm Airbus to pay 15.9 million euros ($16.4 million) to avoid a corruption probe into aircraft deals in Libya and Kazakhstan between 2006 and 2011. Prosecutors from France’s national financial crime unit...
Thursday, December 1, 2022
UNESCO on Thursday added Tunisia’s spicy national condiment Harissa to its list of intangible cultural heritage, saying it was part of the North African country’s identity. The United Nations’ cultural agency is meeting in Morocco to examine...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Monday, November 28, 2022
Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk and The North Africa Journal visited Tunisia this November and is bringing better understanding on the challenges facing the Tunisians in their day-to-day living. Listen to the audio podcast version: Download the MP3 file here...
Monday, November 28, 2022
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Monday, November 28, 2022
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Monday, November 28, 2022
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Monday, November 28, 2022
The French baguette, Algerian Rai music and Tunisia’s harissa condiment are among this year’s contenders for recognition as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO, which started deliberations Monday in Morocco. The United Nations’ cultural agency is...
Monday, November 28, 2022
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
Nouakchott and Madrid have reached a security deal to provide Mauritania with more logistical support to combat informal immigration, the state-run Mauritanian News Agency reported Thursday. Mauritania is a common transit country for undocumented migrants attempting...
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Twelve Tunisian policemen were jailed for two years Thursday for manslaughter in the case of a 19-year-old football fan who drowned in a stream while trying to escape them. The death of Omar Laabidi in March 2018 has been seen as a case representative of the excessive...
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Moroccan authorities Friday seized more than two million amphetamine-type captagon pills, foiling an “international trafficking attempt” to West Africa, police said. The pills were found at the Tanger Med industrial port complex on the kingdom’s...
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Thousands of demonstrators thronged Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday to protest the publication of a video on social media deemed blasphemous against Islam. Six people were held on Thursday accused of complicity in circulating a “blasphemous” video...
Friday, October 28, 2022
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Friday, October 28, 2022
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Friday, October 28, 2022
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Friday, October 28, 2022
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Friday, October 28, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Tunisia said Wednesday it plans to repatriate a four-year-old girl who reached Italy aboard a boat with other irregular migrants, but without her family. The state “is taking care of the girl’s interests and completing the necessary measures to ensure her...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Burkina Faso’s new government on Wednesday declared its top priority would be to secure the nation’s territory, after the latest coup to rock the jihadist-torn Sahel state. “It’s a government on a war footing that has been formed. It’s...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Algerian court hands over death sentence to exiled journalist for publishing “fake” and “confidential” information Attacks on journalists in Algeria have reach an alarming level. Earlier this month, a court in the capital Algiers went as far as to hand a death penalty...
Monday, October 24, 2022
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011 revolt who has been jailed for the past three years, officials said Monday. Zyad el-Elaimy, 42, arrested in June 2019 on charges of fomenting...
Monday, October 24, 2022
A trade union close to the main Moroccan Islamist party on Sunday mobilised several hundred supporters in the capital to protest against the high cost of living. The rally, outside parliament and witnessed by AFP journalists, came after several protests already this...
Sunday, October 23, 2022
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Sunday, October 23, 2022
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