Nigeria army finds five kidnapped students
Nigerian soldiers have found five of the dozens of students kidnapped last month from their college in the country’s northwest, state officials said on Monday. Dozens of gunmen last month seized 39 students from their hostels in the Federal College of Forestry...Nigeria: Nearly 2,000 inmates escape Owerri prison after daring attack
More than 1,800 inmates have escaped after heavily armed men attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria using explosives, prison authorities said Monday. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle, the national...Tunisia: Health professionals in Nabeul brace for strike on 7 April
Morocco: S&P joins Moody’s and Fitch in downgrading Morocco
Algeria withdraws draft law stripping opponents abroad of their citizenship
Morocco: Casablanca court rejects plea to release jailed journalist Soulaimane Raissouni, accused of being Gay
Algeria: Boy accuses police of assault and sex abuse
Nigeria: Kaduna state outlaws negotiations with student kidnappers
Authorities in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state have warned they will prosecute anyone who negotiates with the kidnappers of 39 missing students as parents called for their rescue. Dozens of gunmen last month seized the students from their hostels in the...
Covid-19: Libya gets first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
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Algeria withdraws law stripping citizenship to opponents abroad, big loss for regime hardliners
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Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuse
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Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan launch another attempt at negotiations over Nile dam
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Niger’s new president term starts amid intense violence
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Africa: With terror groups intensely fixated on Africa, security outlook feels gloomy
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Sahel: Violence in Niger as country prepares to inaugurate a new president
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Mali: Remains of murdered Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockli to return to her family
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Libyans working on reconciliation with release of enemy fighters
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Morocco: 3,000 Spaniards stranded in Morocco after Rabat banned flight from Spain
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Algeria: Guards and one inmate die in freak accident in Bejaia prison
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Critics of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari have launched an outcry after he flew to London for a medical visit, highlighting his frequent trips abroad for treatment and the country’s ramshackle health system. Buhari, 78, has made several trips to London...
Sahel: Chad Strongman Deby prepares to rule for another term
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Egypt: Negotiations over Ethiopian dam project going nowhere
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Sahel: UN says French air strike killed civilians in Mali, France rejects findings
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Libya intercepts large number of would-be migrants
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Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prison
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Egypt: Eight arrested over train collision in Tahta that killed 18 people
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Egypt: Suez Canal reopens after container ship refloated
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Egypt: Container ship still stuck in Suez Canal
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Egypt: Building collapse in Cairo claims 25 lives
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Algeria: Hirak launches fifth week of anti-regime protest
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Libyan authorities on the hunt for killers of Al Warfalli, arrest suspect
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Islamist militants have seized control of the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near a huge gas project involving French oil major Total and other international energy companies, security sources said on Saturday. In their closest attack to the gas project in the...
Egypt: Russia marketing its Northern Sea route as alternative to Suez Canal
Russia cheekily pushed the Northern Sea Route on Thursday as an “alternative” to Egypt’s Suez Canal after a huge container ship blocked the busy shipping lane. President Vladimir Putin has long promoted the passage along the country’s Siberian...
Sahel: Attacks on Niger targets continue
Eleven people were killed on Wednesday in western Niger, a flashpoint for jihadist attacks, when armed men on motorbikes raided three villages near the Malian border, local officials said. “The assailants arrived on several motorbikes at around 5pm. They killed...
Libya: First group of mercenaries linked to Turkey leaving Libya
Pro-Ankara Syrian militia fighters deployed in Libya have started to withdraw, a French diplomatic source said on Thursday, describing the move as “encouraging”. “This is one of the encouraging gestures that we have seen. There are movements (of the...
Tunisia: Italian garbage still piled up in Tunisia, owners unwilling to remove it
Italy and Tunisia were pressed on Thursday to clear hundreds of containers of waste illegally shipped and stored at a port in the North African county. In the summer of 2020, Tunisian customs officials seized 282 containers that had been shipped from Italy and...
Egypt: Single container ship cripples Suez Canal traffic
By Farid Farid – The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said Thursday they faced “extreme difficulty” refloating it, as Egypt temporarily closed one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah...
Mali: French military accused of killing six people in raid on Talataye, France denies
Six people were killed in northeastern Mali on Thursday in disputed circumstances, with French forces saying a strike targeted jihadists and local residents alleging those left dead were young hunters. It was the second time in recent months that an air strike had...