Wednesday, September 29, 2021
A Libyan youth leader was abducted by unidentified gunmen after calling for demonstrations in support of scheduled December elections, the UN said, voicing concern for his safety. Imad al-Harathi, head of the North African country’s National Youth League,...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
By Aymen Jamli: Tunisia’s president on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country’s first ever female prime minister-designate, to form a government with limited executive clout after the president seized wide-ranging powers two months ago. ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Reactions The Polisario, which seeks independence in the Western Sahara, welcomed a ruling Wednesday by the U’s top court cancelling trade deals that allow Morocco to export goods from the territory. “The European court has decided to annul the partnership...
Monday, September 27, 2021
Two detained former prime ministers under Algeria’s longtime ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika were handed additional prison sentences on Monday for corruption, local media reported. Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal were sentenced to six and five years...
Monday, September 27, 2021
About 2,000 Tunisians rallied in the capital on Sunday to protest against President Kais Saied’s recent steps to tighten his grip on power, labelling it “a coup d’etat”. Saied, who on July 25 sacked prime minister Hichem Mechichi, suspended...
Friday, September 24, 2021
An Algiers court on Thursday sentenced a former presidential candidate and retired general to four years in prison for undermining army morale, the official APS news agency reported. Ali Ghediri had said he would stand in Algeria’s April 2019 election against...
Friday, September 24, 2021
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday announced the lifting of a nighttime curfew in place since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but imposed vaccine certificates for public events. The curfew, currently in place between midnight and 5:00 am, will end on...
Friday, September 24, 2021
Chad’s foreign minister warned against outside interference on Thursday, referencing Russian paramilitaries operating in neighboring countries. Cherif Mahamat Zene said “external interference, wherever it comes from, poses a very serious problem for the...
Friday, September 24, 2021
The mobile phones of at least five French ministers and a diplomatic advisor to President Emmanuel Macron were infected by the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, sources told AFP on Friday, confirming a report by the Mediapart investigative website. French security...
Friday, September 24, 2021
Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union warned Friday against threats to the country’s democracy after President Kais Saied implemented rule by decree and suspended parts of the constitution. The UGTT, which played a key role in the country’s move...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Veteran Algerian politician Abdelkader Bensalah, who served briefly as interim president after his mentor Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign in 2019, died Wednesday aged 79, the president’s office said. His death after what friends said was a long...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
By Abdellah Cheballa: Algeria said Wednesday it has closed its airspace to all Moroccan planes due to “provocations and hostile practices” by its neighbour, in the latest dispute between the countries at odds mainly over Western Sahara. The move comes...
Sunday, September 19, 2021
By Abdellah Cheballah with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country’s longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors. ...
Monday, September 13, 2021
Does it really matter? By Arezki Daoud: The press often spends too much ink on such ministerial appointments, and although selecting a PM in the UK or Spain, for example, is a big deal, in places like Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, it really means nothing. In Morocco,...
Monday, September 13, 2021
By Akim Rezgui with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Tahar Jaouebi looks out from a beach south of Tunis remembering the 1990s, when the water was still clean enough to bathe in. “Now I can’t swim any more, and neither can my son,” he says. Jaouebi, 47, is...
Monday, September 13, 2021
(Photo: Journalists Mouloudj (left) and Bouras (right)): An Algerian journalist and rights activist was taken into custody on Sunday facing a charge of “glorifying terrorism”, one of his lawyers said. Hassan Bouras was also charged with belonging to a...
Monday, September 13, 2021
By Sarah Benhaida and Farid Farid: Israel’s Naftali Bennett met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday, on the first visit to the North African country by a prime minister of the Jewish state in over a decade. Sisi was hosting Bennett in the Red Sea...
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....
