Friday, July 23, 2021
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...
Friday, July 23, 2021
Nineteen defendants including a former president’s son linked to a massive debt scandal that plunged Mozambique into its worst financial crisis are to go on trial next month, according to a court document seen Wednesday. The scandal saw the government secretly...
Friday, July 23, 2021
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...
Friday, July 23, 2021
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
By Salam Faraj: Iraq was in mourning Tuesday for dozens of people killed when a bomb ripped through a crowded Baghdad market on the eve of a Muslim feast in what the Islamic State group claimed as a suicide attack. The bloody carnage Monday evening, one of the...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
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...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi to six years in jail on charges of espionage and rape, stirring condemnation from rights groups. Radi’s trial opened in June last year, just days after...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
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...
Monday, July 19, 2021
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...
Monday, July 19, 2021
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...
Monday, July 19, 2021
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...
Monday, July 19, 2021
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...
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Algeria recalled its ambassador in Morocco for consultations on Sunday as a new diplomatic spat broke out between the regional arch-rivals. The move came after Morocco’s envoy to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, expressed support for self-determination for...
Friday, July 16, 2021
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...
Friday, July 16, 2021
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....
Friday, July 16, 2021
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...
Thursday, July 15, 2021
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...
Thursday, July 15, 2021
There has been escalating unrest in several localities in the northeast Algerian Sahara. The oil hubs of Ouargla, Hassi Messaoud, El Menea and Touggourt have been the most affected by riots of unemployed youths for about one week. Young protesters released their...
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the “horrific violations” being committed against migrants returned to Libya with the cooperation of European states after trying to cross the Mediterranean. It said new evidence had emerged of “harrowing...
Thursday, July 15, 2021
More than 237,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in the past six months in Burkina Faso, a country facing deadly jihadist attacks, bringing the total number of displaced to more than 1.3 million, the government has announced. A government spokesman...
Monday, July 12, 2021
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Monday, July 12, 2021
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Monday, July 12, 2021
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Monday, July 12, 2021
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Monday, July 12, 2021
Egypt’s parliament on Sunday passed a law toughening sentences for sexual harassment to at least five years in prison, Egyptian media outlets reported. The amendment makes sexual harassment a criminal offence, as opposed to a misdemeanour, and raises the minimum...
Monday, July 12, 2021
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Monday, July 12, 2021
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Saturday, July 10, 2021
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Saturday, July 10, 2021
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Friday, July 9, 2021
More than 730,000 displaced people in conflict-ridden northern Mozambique could face a “hunger emergency” unless urgent funding is secured, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned Tuesday. Insurgents have been wreaking havoc in Cabo Delgado since 2017,...
Friday, July 9, 2021
Its hallmark: Attack a remote village, massacre its inhabitants and abduct survivors. Not for nothing has the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) become a name that inspires widespread dread in eastern DR Congo. Suspicions are growing that this historically Ugandan...
Friday, July 9, 2021
Rwanda said on Friday it will send 1,000 troops to Mozambique to help the country battle extremist militants wreaking havoc in the north of the gas-rich nation. The planned deployment comes on the heels of a similar decision last month by the 16 nations in the...
Friday, July 9, 2021
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Friday, July 9, 2021
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Friday, July 9, 2021
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Friday, July 9, 2021
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Thursday, July 8, 2021
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