Monday, June 7, 2021
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Monday, June 7, 2021
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Sunday, June 6, 2021
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Sunday, June 6, 2021
Telecoms operators in Nigeria restricted Twitter Saturday, a day after the government announced its indefinite suspension for activities “capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”. International human rights groups have already condemned...
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Thirteen people died in northwest Nigeria’s Sokoto state when a boat ferrying wedding guests capsized, officials said, a week after 150 people went missing in another boat accident. The boat was conveying 18 people returning from a wedding in Shagari district...
Sunday, June 6, 2021
A gang of cattle thieves killed 66 people in raids on seven villages in northwest Nigeria’s Kebbi state, police told AFP Saturday. Dozens of assailants on motorcycles attacked seven neighbouring villages in Danko-Wasagu district on Thursday, Kebbi state police...
Friday, June 4, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
Friday, June 4, 2021
The United Nations on Friday launched an appeal for $617.5 million dollars to help the central African state of Chad meet an escalating humanitarian emergency. Around 5.5 million people — a third of the population — need support for food, health, shelter,...
Friday, June 4, 2021
Six teenage girls were killed and 19 others injured in a fire at a juvenile detention centre in the Egyptian capital, officials said Friday. The blaze broke out late Thursday at the building in Al-Marg district on Cairo’s northeastern outskirts, a security...
Friday, June 4, 2021
New Mali leader meets Touareg representatives in a necessary move to bring peace to the country AFP – Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita met former Tuareg rebels on Wednesday, officials said, amid political uncertainty after the second coup in nine months in...
Friday, June 4, 2021
Algeria Political Outlook Algeria is organizing its third elections since late 2019 with the population continuing to reject the political roadmap of President Tebboune and the military establishment. With most secular parties rejecting and boycotting the elections,...
Friday, June 4, 2021
By Aminu Abubakar For years, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was a dreaded figure in Nigeria’s insurgency, terrorising local communities with attacks, bombs and kidnappings. Today, this once-dominant figure seems to be leaving the scene after being badly...
Thursday, June 3, 2021
The US State Department posted a $7 million reward Wednesday for information leading to the location or identification of Abu Ubaydah Youssef Al-Annabi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The department said Anabi was declared the emir of the...
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Flights have resumed between Libya’s capital Tripoli and the eastern city of Tobruk after a break of several years, as the division-plagued country takes a further step towards normalcy. A flight from Tripoli of Libya’s Buraq Air landed late Wednesday in...
Thursday, June 3, 2021
A Nigerian state government said it was negotiating with gunmen who seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary at the weekend, the latest in a string of mass kidnappings in the country. Criminal gangs have often targeted schools in remote areas, where pupils live in...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
By Marion Douet The African Union announced it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatened the impoverished country with sanctions, after a second military coup in nine months. The putsch has sparked deep concerns over stability in the volatile Sahel...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
At least 23 migrants were missing and two bodies recovered from the sea off Tunisia, the Red Crescent reported Wednesday, after the military said more than 100 migrants were intercepted. The Tunisian navy said a boat headed for Europe from Zuwara in Libya was...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
The leader of Western Sahara’s independence movement, whose presence at a Spanish hospital sparked a diplomatic row with Rabat, left Spain overnight and flew to Algeria, a government source said Wednesday. He’s “in Algeria,” the source told...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
The US military on Tuesday denied a tweet by Morocco’s prime minister that US-led African military exercises this month would take place in the disputed region of Western Sahara. Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani said last week on Twitter that the training...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
By Marie Giffard A Spanish judge on Tuesday declined to order that the leader of Western Sahara’s movement, who is under investigation in Spain for torture and genocide, be taken into custody. Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, denied...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Rising exports of fish meal and fish oil from West Africa to Europe and Asia are depriving millions of Africans of food, Greenpeace said Tuesday. In a report, the environmental group said that over half a million tonnes of fish used to produce fish meal and fish oil...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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Friday, May 28, 2021
By Patrick Galey The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming mark within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global climate trends released Thursday. The World Meterological Organization and Britain’s Met Office said there was...
Friday, May 28, 2021
Tunisia’s Qalb Tounes party, a member of the governing coalition, on Thursday demanded the release of its leader and media tycoon Nabil Karoui, who is in custody over money laundering allegations. Party lawmaker Oussama Khlifi told a news conference in...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Tunisia’s main Islamist party Ennahdha demanded Tuesday a probe into a document purportedly drafted by advisers to President Kais Saied that details how he could perpetrate a constitutional coup. The unverified paper, dismissed as a fake by the presidency, was...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
IMF staff on Tuesday announced they had reached an agreement with Egypt over an economic program that would release the final tranche of a $5.2 billion loan approved last year. Once approved by the board of the International Monetary Fund, the second performance...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
By Robin Millard The United Nations urged Libya and the EU to overhaul their search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, saying current practices robbed migrants of their lives, rights and dignity. A UN Human Rights Office report on SAR operations and the...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
The Western Sahara independence leader, whose presence at a hospital in Spain has angered Rabat, will testify by video conference at a Spanish court hearing next week, judicial sources said Wednesday. Brahim Ghali, who leads the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, has...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Morocco has vaccinated nearly 4,000 inmates as part of a campaign launched in March to inoculate the incarcerated population against coronavirus, the kingdom’s prison authority said Wednesday. The aim of the campaign, started several weeks after the national...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Moroccan lawmakers on Wednesday approved a law legalising the therapeutic use of cannabis, bringing one of the world’s biggest producers of hashish a step closer to green-lighting the major reform. The lower house of parliament adopted the text on the lawful use...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
By Serge Daniel and Malick Konate Mali’s interim president and prime minister resigned on Wednesday, a top junta aide said, two days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to amount to the country’s second coup in nine...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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Monday, May 24, 2021
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