Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune dismissed his prime minister on Saturday, replacing him with a seasoned diplomat, the presidency said. Tebboune named Nadir Larbaoui, currently serving as director of the presidential...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023Mali’s army has retaken the town of Kidal from Tuareg-dominated rebels. Here we look at the significance of the place which has for years been a northern stronghold for the separatists. – Where and what is Kidal?...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023Jubilant Malians have taken to the streets and the ruling junta issued triumphant statements saying the military’s takeover of a key rebel-held town validated its strategic choices. The capture of Kidal — a historic...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023The United Nations said it resumed humanitarian flights in Niger on Wednesday, suspended after a July coup in the country where more than four million people are in need of aid. “The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
At least two children died when fire swept through an informal camp for displaced people in northeast Nigeria, destroying more than a thousand tents, emergency officials said on Wednesday. The fire broke out at the Muna Alamdari camp near the Borno State capital...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called Israel a “terror state”, stepping up his condemnation of the spiralling civilian toll of its war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Erdogan’s latest...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, arrived in Turkey for treatment in the early hours of Thursday, Turkey’s Anadolu agency reported. Two planes carrying the patients,...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1310 issue: week ending 3 November 2023More than 260 Libyan and international companies on Wednesday attended a forum in Benghazi organised by the country’s eastern authorities with the hope of rebuilding the flood-ravaged city of Derna. On September 10, Storm...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1310 issue: week ending 3 November 2023France24 says a rare geological phenomenon has occurred in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains following a large earthquake on September 8. While the earthquake’s scars are still visible, new water sources have emerged in the...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1310 issue: week ending 3 November 2023US World & News Report discusses the public pressure and protests in Morocco and other Arab nations in response to Israel’s war with Hamas. Tens of thousands of people in Morocco have demonstrated in support of the...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1310 issue: week ending 3 November 2023The military leaders who took power in Niger this year have commissioned a giant pipeline that will carry crude oil to neighbouring Benin, public television said Wednesday. The nearly 2,000-kilometre-long oil pipeline will allow...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1310 issue: week ending 3 November 2023Tunisia’s president said Wednesday that the escape of five prisoners convicted of “terrorism” was a well-planned operation that had clearly been in the pipeline for “months”. The government has urged...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1310 issue: week ending 3 November 2023Egypt will help evacuate “about 7,000” foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said, with officials saying some 400 people were expected to cross Thursday. For the first...
Monday, October 30, 2023
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Monday, October 23, 2023
1309 issue: week ending 27 October 2023An aid convoy entered the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday via the Rafah border crossing, AFP correspondents on the Egyptian and Palestinian sides said, the third since war erupted on October 7. More than a dozen lorries crossed...
Monday, October 23, 2023
1309 issue: week ending 27 October 2023The European Union on Monday took a legal step towards imposing sanctions on Niger’s new military rulers, who overthrew the democratically elected leader in July. The 27-nation bloc has condemned the ouster of Niger’s...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023In Libya: Several hundred people protested in Tripoli and other Libyan cities late Tuesday over the deadly strike on a Gaza hospital, according to AFP journalists. In Tripoli, hundreds of demonstrators of all ages, brandishing...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023Burkina Faso’s junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant to increase the energy supply to the Sahel country where less than a quarter of the population has access...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Flooding after heavy rains in eastern Ghana have forced nearly 26,000 people to leave their homes at the request of the authorities, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) said Tuesday.Crops have been destroyed and schools shut after two hydro-electric...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the economy minister on Tuesday and appointed the finance minister to the role on an interim basis, the presidency announced without giving any explanation. In a brief statement published on...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023Thousands of angry protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Tunisia on Tuesday, also denouncing the US, after a strike on a Gaza Strip hospital killed at least 200 people. The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said at...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, aid officials said. The blockaded territory has been under sustained...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023Niger’s military regime said Tuesday that six soldiers and 31 “terrorists” had been killed in fighting in a restive region plagued by insurgents linked with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. Clashes between...
Monday, October 16, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023Hundreds of supporters of Abir Moussi, a prominent opponent of the Tunisian president, gathered on Sunday in the capital to protest her detention, AFP journalists said. Moussi, who has on multiple occasions accused Saied of...
Monday, October 16, 2023
1308 issue: week ending 20 October 2023By Sarah Benhaida: The Gaza Strip has only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left”, the regional head of the United Nations’ World Health Organization told AFP on Monday, as pressure mounts for assistance...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
1307 issue: week ending 13 October 2023A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday reduced to eight months the sentence for a human rights activist convicted of comments considered offensive to the king and the judiciary after. Saida El Alami is still serving a separate...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
1307 issue: week ending 13 October 2023Niger’s military leaders have ordered the United Nations coordinator to leave the country within 72 hours, blaming the world body for hindering international recognition of the post-coup regime. The expulsion order comes a...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
1307 issue: week ending 13 October 2023An Egyptian policeman shot dead two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide Sunday, local media and Israeli authorities said, as war raged for a second day between Israel and Palestinian militants. Israel’s National...
Monday, October 9, 2023
1307 issue: week ending 13 October 2023Egyptian presidential hopeful Ahmed al-Tantawi on Monday said eight of his supporters had been arrested, bringing the total number of his backers in detention to 96. Egypt announced last month that it would be holding its...
Friday, October 6, 2023
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