Sunday, September 12, 2021
Thirteen people died and eight were injured in Algeria on Sunday when a bus collided with a truck in the northwest, emergency services said. The crash happened in the Oued Khebaza locality in Naama province, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) south of the capital...
Monday, September 6, 2021
The runner-up in Tunisia’s 2019 presidential election, Nabil Karoui, has been placed in pre-trial detention in neighbouring Algeria, accused of “entering the country illegally”, local media reported Sunday. Karoui and his brother Ghazi, an MP, had...
Monday, September 6, 2021
A court in Egypt on Sunday sentenced eight foreigners and two Egyptians to death on charges of smuggling in over two tonnes of heroin by sea, a judicial source said. Authorities seized the drugs brought in via the Red Sea, worth around 2.5 billion pounds ($159...
Monday, September 6, 2021
Twelve people were killed on an Egyptian highway early Sunday when their bus overturned on their return from the popular Red Sea resort Sharm El-Sheikh, medical and security sources said. Thirty-four other passengers were injured and transported to the port town of...
Monday, September 6, 2021
Saadi Kadhafi, a son of Libya’s late dictator Moamer Kadhafi who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has been freed from jail, said the interim government. Saadi — the strongman’s third son, now aged 47 — was known for his playboy...
Friday, September 3, 2021
One of Morocco’s leading political parties was on Friday fending off a chorus of accusations of illegal campaign spending, days ahead of September 8 parliamentary elections. The National Rally of Independents (RNI), led by billionaire businessman and agriculture...
Friday, September 3, 2021
Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China’s Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would become the Middle East and Africa’s “biggest vaccine producer”. Under the deal with the Chinese pharmaceutical company, a...
Friday, September 3, 2021
Friday, September 3, 2021
First Covid Delta cases emerge in Niger The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the impoverished Sahel state of Niger, which until now has been relatively spared in the pandemic, the authorities said Friday. Genetic sequencing found six...
Friday, September 3, 2021
Two Libyan army units used heavy artillery in an exchange of fire overnight centring on a barracks in a densely populated area of southeast Tripoli. An attack early Friday ordered by the military commander in the capital saw members of a security group set up by...
Friday, September 3, 2021
The World Organisation Against Torture on Friday urged Tunisia’s President Kais Saied — who suspended the country’s parliamentary democracy in a recent power-grab — to end “arbitrary practises” and restrictions on freedom. Saied won...
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Algeria-Tunisia: Scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours Tunisian opposition politician and media owner Nabil Karoui and his brother, a member of the Tunisian parliament, were arrested by the Algerian authorities during a trip to the Algerian city of Tebessa, on the...
Monday, August 30, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Friday, August 27, 2021
By Aminu Abubakar: Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school’s head teacher said on Thursday. Heavily armed criminals snatched 136 pupils...
Friday, August 27, 2021
By Audu Abba Kurama with Animu Abubakar in Kano Images of bedraggled jihadists and families surrendering to the military have sparked heated debate over the Nigerian army’s claims of success in its long war and the future of fighters who lay down their guns....
Friday, August 27, 2021
By Muhammad Tanko Shittu: A central Nigerian city caught up in intercommunal tensions remained under 24-hour curfew on Thursday, two days after the second attack this month killed at least 16 people. Jos in central Plateau State, on the dividing line between the...
Friday, August 27, 2021
By Hamza Mekouar: Bullet holes scar the minaret of the Sufi mosque in Libya’s Zliten, but followers of the Muslim mystical tradition are working to renovate and preserve their heritage. A handful of students sit cross-legged on the floor of the mosque in the...
Friday, August 27, 2021
The United Nations on Thursday welcomed the creation of a joint security force from rival sides in Libya to secure the country’s water network amid sabotage threats. “It is a very significant step forward towards the unification of the military institution...
Friday, August 27, 2021
Algeria said Thursday it was ready to divert all its Spain-bound natural gas exports via an undersea pipeline that bypasses Morocco, state media said, two days after Algiers cut ties with its North African rival. In a meeting with Spanish Ambassador Fernando Moran,...
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Campaigning began in Morocco Thursday for September 8 elections that will seal the fate of the Moroccan Islamist party which heads the current government coalition. Nearly 18 million citizens, 46 percent of them women, will be eligible to vote to choose 395 deputies...
Thursday, August 26, 2021
By Serge Daniel Former Malian prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga was arrested on Thursday as part of a corruption investigation, his lawyer Kassoum Tapo said. Maiga, 67, was a close ally of former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was overthrown in a coup by...
Thursday, August 26, 2021
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and wounded nine others, Defence Minister Alkassoum Indatou told AFP on Wednesday. In the assault late on Tuesday “the positions of our defence...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
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Monday, August 23, 2021
A dual Moroccan-Italian citizen jailed for three and a half years for “insulting Islam” will walk free Monday after a court gave her a suspended two-month jail term, a rights group said. “She will be leaving prison Monday evening,” a member of...
Monday, August 23, 2021
Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended his suspension of parliament “until further notice”, a month after sacking his prime minister and granting himself greater powers in a shock intervention that opponents decried as a coup. In a statement issued by...
Thursday, August 19, 2021
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Thursday, August 19, 2021
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Sunday, August 15, 2021
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