Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Five people died and 25 others were hospitalised in Tunisia after drinking a bootleg brew reportedly containing alcohol intended for perfumes, health officials and local media said Monday. Abdelghani Chaabani, director of health of the central town of Kasserine, told...
Monday, February 8, 2021
At least 24 people died after heavy rain flooded an illegal underground textile workshop in a private house in Morocco’s port of Tangiers, the state news agency reported Monday. Rescue workers recovered 24 bodies from the property and rescued 10 survivors, who...
Monday, February 8, 2021
Nearly 9.2 tonnes of cannabis resin hidden in bales buried in sand were seized in southwestern Morocco, the national security service said Saturday. The DGSN security service said in a statement that the drugs were uncovered in the Guelmim region and an investigation...
Monday, February 8, 2021
The public prosecutor at a court in Algiers ordered an inquiry Sunday after a student alleged security forces had tortured him in custody, a statement said. Walid Nekkiche was arrested on November 26, 2019, in Algiers during a march of students from the Hirak...
Monday, February 8, 2021
Who is Libya’s new Interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah? Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya’s newly elected interim prime minister, is a wealthy businessman and Canada-educated engineer close to Turkey tasked with uniting the war-riddled country ahead of elections...
Friday, February 5, 2021
By Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha – Egypt has freed a journalist for Qatar’s Al Jazeera, a security source said Friday, after four years in jail without trial following the end last month of a rift between the two Arab states. Mahmoud Hussein, an...
Friday, February 5, 2021
By Robin Millard with Rim Taher in Tripoli – Libyan delegates at UN-facilitated talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as the transitional unity prime minister to take the war-ravaged country through to elections in...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Amid increasing violence between two rival factions, the country’s biggest indigenous people get set for an uncertain future Analysis and photo by Karlos Zurutuza, as published in Nationalia From the Editor: Once again, the ethnic Amazigh are seeing their future...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Burkina Faso Prime Minister Christophe Dabire on Thursday floated the idea of negotiations with jihadist groups, an idea rejected until now by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. Kabore, who began his second term as president a month ago, and Dabire are facing a...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
The UN Security Council on Thursday instructed Secretary General Antonio Guterres to deploy ceasefire monitors to war-torn Libya. “As they examine your recommendation for an amended mandate for the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the members of...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thirty years’ jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era drug laws after a court handed down heavy sentences to three young men. Tunisians have taken to social media to demand changes to the law after...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
A trial in Algeria over the murder of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel by jihadists in 2014 was postponed Thursday due to the prime suspect’s ill health, judicial sources said. Abdelmalek Hamzaoui, an alleged jihadist, had arrived at court for the opening...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Turkey on Wednesday opened the retrial of the country’s Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that their supporters call “judicial harassment”. RSF’s Turkey representative Erol...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Turkey on Thursday rejected US criticism over mass detentions of students during a month of escalating protests, telling Washington not to interfere in its internal affairs. Hundreds of students and their supporters were detained this week after police violently...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
A firm at the centre of a $2-billion loan scandal that plunged Mozambique into its worst financial crisis says it donated to President Filipe Nyusi’s 2014 election bid, according to documents it filed at a British court. The company said Nyusi, who had been...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Twelve opposition parties in Chad say they will field a joint candidate against Idriss Deby Itno, who has been in power for 30 years, in upcoming presidential elections. Deby is expected to be named by his Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) party on Saturday as its...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Ten troops were killed in Mali’s troubled central region early Wednesday when their camp came under attack from jihadists, security sources said. Their position at Boni, located between Douentza and Hombori in the Mopti region, was attacked by “heavily...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
A landmine killed four Tunisian soldiers on Wednesday during an counter-terrorism operation in mountainous central Tunisia, the defence ministry said. “Four soldiers who were part of a military unit tasked with carrying out a combing operation of Mount Mghila...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Chad’s government has barred the opposition from staging protests ahead of an expected announcement by President Idriss Deby Itno’s party that the veteran leader will be its champion in upcoming elections. In a decree published late Monday, Public Security...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
A commercial flight landed in Timbuktu on Monday for the first time since jihadists captured the fabled Malian city in 2012, launching a new link for local airline Sky Mali. Carrying a delegation including two ministers, the plane landed after making the 700-kilometre...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
At least 30 people were kidnapped and a dozen others killed in a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, witnesses told AFP Thursday, hours after the president had replaced his military commanders. President Muhammadu Buhari has been under increasing pressure as his...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Nigeria on Thursday repatriated nearly 400 of its citizens stranded by the coronavirus pandemic for months in Saudi Arabia, flying them back to the capital Abuja, an aviation ministry official said. The Nigerians were economic migrants stuck in Saudi Arabia after...
Monday, February 1, 2021
Algeria kicks off Covid-19 vaccination campaign with Sputnik V, expects first shipment of AstraZeneca vaccine Algeria on Saturday launched its coronavirus vaccination campaign starting in the northern city of Blida, the epicentre of the country’s Covid-19...
Monday, February 1, 2021
The United States on Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish forces from Libya, after a deadline for them to leave was ignored. This appeal marked a firmer expression of US policy toward oil-rich Libya under the new administration of...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
A court in the Algerian capital on Thursday upheld hefty prison sentences against two former prime ministers who served under ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a judicial source said. The judgement confirmed sentences of 15 years for Ahmed Ouyahia and 12 years for...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
A hundred jihadists were killed this month in a joint Franco-Malian offensive in the West African country’s lawless centre, the Malian army said Tuesday. “One hundred terrorists were neutralised, about 20 captured and several motorbikes and war equipment...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Representatives from herder and farmer communities that have become ensnarled in violence sparked by jihadist attacks in central Mali have signed three “peace agreements,” a Swiss mediator said. The accords brings together the Fulani, also called Peul, who...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Nigeria has seized pangolin scales and tusks and bones from endangered species allegedly bound for export to Vietnam, a senior customs official said Wednesday. Pangolin scales are traditionally used in China for a range of ailments, including treating blood clots,...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
A complaint by rights groups over a toxic spill at an oil site in Chad linked to the British subsidiary of mining giant Glencore has cleared a hurdle in the UK, Britain’s trade ministry said. The case relates to an accident in September 2018 at the Badila...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
A tropical cyclone that pummeled central Mozambique last weekend has impacted 250,000 people, a sharp increase over initial estimates, a UN official said Tuesday. Myrta Kaulard, the UN’s resident coordinator in Mozambique, also said 18,000 people had been...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
An investigation has been opened into a suspect letter addressed to Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, his office said Wednesday, as media and Algeria’s presidency spoke of an attempted poisoning. Tunisia’s presidency said that the letter, opened by...
