Libya: Preserving Libya’s Sufi heritage
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...Libya: Rival forces agree to protect water network
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...
Algeria says it will end natural gas transiting deal with Morocco
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,...Morocco: Big test for monarchy and Islamist party as Moroccans are set to pick new assembly
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...
Mali arrests former Prime Minister over alleged corruption
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...Morocco to close its Algiers embassy after ties cut
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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...Algeria cuts ties with Morocco after months of diplomatic turmoil
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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...
Tunisia: Enjoying popular support, President Saied reasserts his authority, ups pressure on his opponents
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...
Libya: Countries jockeying for lucrative projects in Libya when stability returns
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A destabilized region: Awful week in the Sahel
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Sahel: Impoverished Chad faces influx of Cameroon refugees
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Niger: Torrentials rains and raging floods kills dozens in Maradi and Agadez
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Algeria: Death toll from wildfires rises to 90
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Sahel: Violence in the Sahel continues to escalate with no end in sight
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Morocco piles more charges on jailed journalist Omar Radi
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