Sunday, December 17, 2023
1313 issue: week ending 22 December 2023A South African paramedic who had been held by jihadists in Mali for over six years has been released, security and humanitarian sources told AFP on Sunday. Gerco van Deventer, 48, was kidnapped in Libya on November 3, 2017, on...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
1313 issue: week ending 22 December 2023Several Moroccan officials have been questioned as part of a high-profile investigation into alleged bribery by the north African state and Qatar at the European Parliament, Belgian prosecutors said Saturday. The interviews in...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
1313 issue: week ending 22 December 2023A section of the historic walls around the Old City of Kairouan collapsed on Saturday, killing three masons carrying out repairs on the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tunisian authorities said. Two workers were also injured in the...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
1313 issue: week ending 22 December 2023@northafricajournal #Egypt downs #drone in #Sinai Peninsula near #Israel ♬ original sound – The North Africa Journal The Egyptian air force shot down a drone off the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday down the coast from the...
Thursday, December 14, 2023
1313 issue: week ending 22 December 2023The military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have banded together in a joint defence pact to fight jihadists and present a united political front in their declared aim to restore sovereignty. Against a backdrop of a...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human rights activists, citing “ongoing judicial harassment”. After a 10-day visit to the North African...
Monday, December 4, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023Libyan authorities on Friday released four members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas who were arrested in 2016 on charges including trafficking arms to Gaza, according to Libyan media. The four men — Marwan al-Ashqar,...
Monday, December 4, 2023
By Aymen Jamli: A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia. The black unmanned aircraft, equipped with a multi-lens camera and sensors, has been enlisted by Tunisian farmers to help adapt to years of drought...
Monday, December 4, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa’s Sahel area, the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world’s most troubled...
Monday, December 4, 2023
Turkey’s annual inflation rate ticked up slightly in November, the state statistics agency said on Monday, showing further signs of levelling off following a series of sharp interest rate hikes. The rate moved to 61.98 percent last month from 61.36 percent in...
Monday, December 4, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023An illegal gold mining network, comprised of Chinese, Chadian, and Nigerien nationals, has been dismantled in southern Libya, local authorities have said in a statement. The network, led by a Libyan man, was mining four large...
Monday, December 4, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused of murdering an Italian student in 2016. Giulio Regeni, 28, was researching his doctorate at Cambridge...
Monday, December 4, 2023
By Dmitry Zaks: Turkey’s main opposition party lost a crucial ally Monday in its bid to form a united front against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling coalition in high-stakes March municipal polls. The secular opposition joined forces in landmark...
Monday, December 4, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023A court in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott on Monday sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in prison for having abused his position to amass an ill-gotten fortune. Aziz, who ruled the pivotal...
Monday, December 4, 2023
1312 issue: week ending 8 December 2023Niger’s military leaders said Monday that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the country, after earlier in the day agreeing to strengthen military cooperation with Russia. The Nigerien...
Monday, December 4, 2023
By Aminu Abubakar with Laurie Churchman in Abuja: An army drone strike accidentally hit a village in northwestern Nigeria killing dozens of civilians celebrating a Muslim festival, local authorities, the military and residents said on Monday. Nigeria’s armed...
Saturday, November 18, 2023
NGOs ask banks to pull out of TotalEnergies’ gas project in Mozambique Paris, Nov 17, 2023 (AFP) – A group of 124 NGOs posted an open letter on Friday to dozens of financial institutions, including European, Japanese and South African banks, urging them to...
Saturday, November 18, 2023
MSF concern over malnourished Sudanese child refugees Thousands of children whose families fled the conflict in Sudan for neighbouring Chad are suffering from severe malnutrition, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Friday, appealing for emergency food aid. Chad...
Saturday, November 18, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023By Mumen KhatibB and Giuseppe Cacace: Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is stretchered onto a plane to Abu Dhabi — one of the Gaza war’s first evacuees to the United Arab...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1311 issue: week ending 17 November 2023Moroccan mining company Managem, controlled by Morocco’s royal family, has refuted allegations linking its mining activities to arsenic contamination in the local water supply. Associated Press says Managem Group, a...
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...
