Tunisia: Protests erupt in Tunisia against mediocre governmentF

Tunisia: Protests erupt in Tunisia against mediocre governmentF

Thousands of Tunisians marched in several cities protesting against the ruling party Sunday, criticising what they said was government failures in the North African nation amid crippling coronavirus rates. In the capital Tunis, hundreds of protesters gathered in front...

Nigeria gets six A-29 Super Tucanos attack aircraft from the USF

Nigeria has received six of 12 turboprop light attack aircraft from the United States to help fight mounting insecurity, its airforce said. Africa’s most populous nation faces several security crises, including a 12-year-old jihadist insurgency in the northeast,...

Nigeria: 28 kidnapped students released in NigeriaF

Gunmen who seized 121 students at a high school in northwestern Nigeria in early July have released another 28 teenagers, a school official told AFP on Sunday. The attackers stormed Bethel Baptist High School in northwestern Kaduna state on July 5, abducting students...

Covid-19: Rush to vaccinate in Libya as pandemic continues to spreadF

Libyan authorities on Saturday stepped up their vaccination campaign around the capital Tripoli, as coronavirus cases rise across the country. The health ministry has set up temporary centres in six districts of the capital, and AFP journalists saw long queues outside...

Covid-19: Tunisia gets global support to combat crippling pandemicF

The exhausting fight against Covid in Tunisia By Cecilia Sanchez In Tunisia’s Mediterranean resort of Sousse, exhausted medics struggle to stem surging coronavirus deaths, desperately monitoring oxygen supplies beside patients’ beds, while on the beach...

At least 20 dead in Mali boating accidentF

At least 20 people died while nine were rescued following a boating accident on an artificial lake in southwestern Mali, local officials said on Wednesday.  The mayor of nearby Baya said the passengers were heading for celebrations of the Muslim festival of...

Tunisia: 16 migrants die off the coast of ZarzisF

Tunisia rescued Thursday 166 migrants stranded at sea for nearly a week, recovering the bodies of 16 others who died attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe, security officials said.  The migrants, who included 65 Moroccans, 62 Bangladeshis and 15...

Morocco grapples with the Pegasus spyware problemF

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Sahel: French warplane crashes in central MaliF

A French Mirage warplane crashed in an uninhabited area of central Mali on Tuesday after suffering a technical malfunction, but its two crew ejected and were quickly recovered, the French army said.  The plane was carrying out surveillance near the town of Homburi in...

Sahel: Failed assassination attempt on Mali’s interim presidentF

Assimi Goita’s Profile By Amaury Hauchard with Laurent Lozano in Dakar An enigmatic special forces commander, Mali’s interim leader Assimi Goita is known to be publicity-shy but with a penchant for power. He grabbed headlines in May when he ousted Mali’s...
Under pressure, Egypt releases from prison six activistsF

Under pressure, Egypt releases from prison six activistsF

By Mona Salem Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolution, just days after Washington warned Cairo over a crackdown on rights activists. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014, the...

Libyans facing an expansive Eid El-Adha holidayF

Muslims in war-scarred Libya mark Eid al-Adha from Tuesday, but few will be able to afford the sheep or goat traditionally slaughtered during the festival. The guns may have fallen silent in the North African country, but its people are now fighting a deep economic...

Morocco accused of spying on its journalists with Israeli spywareF

Morocco said Monday it “categorically rejects” claims its intelligence services had used Israeli spyware Pegasus to monitor critics at home and abroad, a government statement read.  Rabat said it had “never acquired computer software to infiltrate...

Covid-19: Mauritania reinstates new measures to contain coronavirusF

Mauritania, concerned over rising Covid-19 infections, has banned mosque prayers over the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha set for Wednesday in the West African country. Prayers will be confined to the home, the government in the conservative Muslim country said in a...
Libya’s normalization efforts at an impasseF

Libya’s normalization efforts at an impasseF

The UN envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, on Thursday warned of an impasse in the political, security and budgetary plans for the country, which is supposed to hold general elections on December 24 but which are looking increasingly in doubt.”I am deeply concerned...
Morocco punishes journalist Omar Radi, sentences him to six years in prisonF

A secret trial in MoroccoF

A Moroccan judge on Tuesday took the trial of journalist and rights activist Omar Radi behind closed doors, a move his supporters slammed as “a new violation”. Radi has been in detention for almost a year on charges of espionage and rape which he denies....
Morocco: Heightened migration crisis in western Med SeaF

Morocco: Heightened migration crisis in western Med SeaF

More than 300 migrants rescued off the coast of Morocco Morocco’s navy has rescued 344 migrants, including women and children, after their makeshift boats ran into difficulty in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the MAP news agency reported Thursday. It said the...
Catholic hostages freed in MaliF

Catholic hostages freed in MaliF

A Malian priest — the last of a group of five Catholics kidnapped in mid-June — has been freed, church and government sources said Wednesday.  Armed men took the five people hostage in the centre of Mali on June 21 after they left Segue to attend the...