Sahel: Niger’s Tahoua region targeted by terror groups, dozens killed in fresh raids
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Tunisia launches first domestically made satellite
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Libya’s media professionals face censorship, intimidation and threats
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Tunisian youth in permanent fear of repression
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Moroccan farmers in Algeria’s Laaroda oasis: Victims of a neglected conflict
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Sahel: Chad ups violence against opposition, less than a month to presidential election
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Tunisia counts its losses from the Jasmine Revolution
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Algeria: Hirak movement strengthens, Algerians confirm disconnect with regime
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Libya: Women making modest progress in politics but glass ceiling still strong
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Sahel: Mass killings continue, another deadly week in Mali and Niger
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Algeria expels Moroccan farmers from its territory, courtesy Western Sahara crisis
NAJ | 19 March 2021: The Algerian authorities have issued an ultimatum to Moroccan farmers working of the Laaroda Oasis palm grove, located in Beni Ouenif, province of Bechar. The ultimatum was to leave the region by 18 March. AFP reported that the withdrawal happened...
Libya: Authorities find bodies of people in Benghazi likely killed execution style
The bodies of 11 people bearing gunshot wounds were discovered on Thursday in eastern Libya’s Benghazi, said a security source, suggesting they had been “executed”. “Security forces were alerted on Thursday of the presence of 11 unidentified...
Morocco: Jailed publisher Bouachrine announces the closing of newspaper Akhbar al Yaoum
By Redouane Benmehdi – Moroccan newspaper Akhbar al Yaoum shut down its operations after 14 years in business. Its closing, which left its staff and journalists stunned and concerned about their future, was announced on March 14, 2021 by its founder Taoufik...
Business: With a choking tourism industry, Morocco’s craftsmen face daunting outlook
By Redouane Benmehdi – Hundreds of thousands of Moroccan craftsmen are facing a daunting future as the government’s Covid-19 policies have resulted in their isolation and lack of effective financial support. The pandemic has starved the craftsmen from their...
Repression: Egypt sentences activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in prison
Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading “false information” relating to Covid-19, her sister and lawyers said. Seif’s brother is jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent figure in...
Tunisia repatriates from Libya women and children allegedly tied to Jihadists
Tunisia has repatriated at least 16 women and children accused of links to extremist jihadi fighters imprisoned in war-ravaged neighbouring Libya, rights groups said Wednesday. Two separate groups of detainees, totalling six women and 10 children, were handed over by...
Covid-19 in Algeria: Coping with the pandemic inside a Blida hospital
At a hospital near the Algerian capital, staff say they are “on the verge of burnout” more than a year on from the facility’s first coronavirus-related admissions. Blida province has been one of the epicentres of Algeria’s novel coronavirus...
Libya: More evidence that new PM Dbeibah may have been elected in exchange for large cash bribes
At least three participants in UN-led Libya peace talks held in Tunisia in November were offered bribes to vote for a prime ministerial candidate, a UN report published Tuesday found. The report was compiled by UN experts responsible for verifying the application of...
Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”
Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely amount to “war crimes”, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. A decade-old jihadist insurgency in North Sinai province...
Algeria: Earthquake rattles coastal Bejaia, seven people injured
Seven people wounded (NAJ – 18 March 2021) – Residents of Bejaia spent a good part of the night from Wednesday to Thursday outside. The earthquake, which was felt within a radius of 300 km, was felt in 12 provinces. Seven people living in old buildings in...
Sahel: Burkina Faso’s Goudebou Camp reopens for Malian refugees
By Armel Baily – “I’m happy — it’s like coming back home,” said Malian refugee Ousmane Wanaher, 34, returning to the camp in northeastern Burkina Faso from which he had been driven out by jihadist attacks a year ago. The...Mali: Two Mali soldiers killed in Jihadist attack on an Ansongo army base
Libya headed toward normalcy as Tunisian president visits Tripoli after a nine-year break
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied is to travel to Libya Wednesday for the first visit by a head of state between the neighbouring countries since 2012, his office announced, in a boost for its new UN-backed administration. Saied’s visit aims to show...
Libya: Transition continues with new government taking over western Libya’s structures
Libya’s Fayez al-Sarraj, outgoing head of the western-based Government of National Accord, formally handed over power Tuesday to a new interim executive hoped to unify the divided and war-torn nation. Sarraj, who has led the UN-recognised GNA since it was set up...Algeria: Trial of media editor for defamation begins with prosecutors seeking 18 months prison
Algerians reject regime’s political roadmap, insist on deep reforms and no status quo
Video: 12 March 2021 protest in Algiers Protesters demanding the end of the military regime, call generals “traitors” Thousands demonstrated in Algiers on Friday, rejecting early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the...
Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push back
By Nina Larson – Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention indefinitely, dozens of countries told the UN on Friday. In a rare oral rebuke of Egypt at the United Nations Human Rights Council, 31...
Morocco: Health of jailed intellectual Maatib Monjib reportedly deteriorating
Supporters of a jailed Moroccan historian and rights activist expressed “serious concern” for his health on Wednesday, days after he began a hunger strike. The support committee for 60-year-old Maatib Monjib “expresses its serious concern about the...
Mauritania: Ex-President Ould Abdel Aziz facing tough corruption charges
By Hademine Ould Sadi – A Mauritanian state prosecutor on Thursday requested corruption charges against former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, and about ten other senior figures, after an investigation into his decade-long rule in the country. The...
Tunisia: Landmines claim more lives in Kasserine, two children killed in blast
Two children were killed and a woman wounded in a landmine blast Thursday in a mountainous region of western Tunisia known as a base for jihadists, the government said. The explosion occurred on Mount Salloum, in a military zone in the marginalised region of...
Algeria’s early legislative elections set for 12 June
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday issued a decree setting June 12 for early legislative elections after he dissolved parliament last month, his office said. Legislative elections were scheduled to be held in 2022, but Tebboune in February...
Egypt’s dilapidated infrastructure: Fire at a garment factory near Cairo kills 20 workers
At least 20 people were killed and 24 others injured Thursday in a clothing factory fire on the eastern outskirts of the Egyptian capital, medical and security sources told AFP. Twelve fire trucks were dispatched to extinguish the huge blaze as smoke billowed out...
Tunisia: Dozens of migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
At least 39 migrants drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, as numbers risking the dangerous crossing to Europe continue to rise. Rescuers pulled 165 survivors from the floundering boats out of the sea to safety. Defence...
Libya has a unity government, looks for return to stability
By Hamza Mekouar – Libya’s parliament on Wednesday approved a unity government to lead the war-ravaged North African nation to December elections, a key step towards ending a decade of chaos. Oil-rich Libya descended into conflict after dictator Moamer...
Libya: Finally Afriqiyah Airways resumes Benghazi-Misrata service after a seven-year state of war
Flights between the eastern Libya city of Benghazi and the western city of Misrata were restored Tuesday after a near seven year absence, the latest tentative step towards national reconciliation. An Afriqiyah Airways plane that took off from Benghazi touched down at...
Libya: Foreign meddlers continue to maintain thousands of mercenaries in Libya
Libya’s prime minister-designate demanded the departure Tuesday of an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters as he sought support from lawmakers to help end a grinding civil war in the North African nation. Oil-rich Libya descended into chaos after dictator Moamer...
Algeria: Protest movement enters third week of rallies as students maintain their Tuesday marches
Hundreds of students and pro-democracy supporters demonstrated in Algiers Tuesday as a revived protest movement enters its third week of rallies. The march made its way through the main streets of the Algerian capital to reach the central post office, AFP journalists...