Thursday, February 25, 2021
By Amaury Hauchard – Former interior minister Mohamed Bazoum won Niger’s presidential elections, according to provisional results issued on Tuesday, as the opposition cried foul and clashes erupted. Bazoum, the ruling party’s candidate, picked up...
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Nine people drowned and at least four were missing Tuesday after a boat chartered for a family fishing trip capsized near Egypt’s second city Alexandria, a security source said. State newspaper Al-Ahram said a six-month-old infant was among the family members...
Thursday, February 25, 2021
By Aymen Jamli – Lotfi Jlassi stood facing Mecca beside the ambulance carrying the body of his brother, who died of Covid-19, and said a prayer — one of the few rites still allowed in Tunisia’s pared back funerals. In the North African country, hit...
Monday, February 22, 2021
By Boureima Hama and Amaury Hauchard – Niger voted Sunday in a presidential run-off between two political heavyweights that is set to bring about the first democratic transition of power in the coup-prone country’s history. But the balloting was marred by...
Monday, February 22, 2021
Tunisia’s transport minister on Monday fired the CEO of Tunisair, just over a month after naming her to revive the ailing national carrier’s fortunes. Olfa Hamdi, an engineer educated in France and the US with experience in managing major enterprises, was...
Monday, February 22, 2021
Around 9.5 tonnes of cannabis resin was seized from a refrigerated lorry near Morocco’s capital Rabat, the national security service said Monday. A police operation intercepted “a refrigerated lorry carrying 380 bales of around 9.5 tonnes of the drug,...
Monday, February 22, 2021
The leader of Mozambique’s second largest opposition party and a top mayor who fought climate change in his low-lying coastal city Beira, Daviz Simango, has died aged 57, his family said Monday. He was transferred to a South African hospital last week for...
Monday, February 22, 2021
By Abdelhafid Daamache – Thousands marched in Algeria’s capital and other cities Monday to mark the second anniversary of the “Hirak” protest movement that forced long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. “We are not here to...
Sunday, February 21, 2021
The powerful interior minister of Libya’s unity government survived an assassination attempt Sunday, an aide said, sparking fears of resurgent violence despite UN-led peace efforts. Fathi Bashagha’s convoy “was fired on from an armoured car while he...
Sunday, February 21, 2021
(Photo: Ultra-hardliner Justice Minister Belkacem Zeghmati) – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced a highly anticipated, but ultimately limited, government reshuffle on Sunday, the eve of the second anniversary of a protest movement that is...
Sunday, February 21, 2021
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the February 3 killing of four soldiers in a rugged region of central Tunisia, SITE Intelligence Group reported. The US monitor of jihadist groups said late Thursday that the soldiers were killed in three blasts...
Friday, February 19, 2021
By Amal Belalloufi and Philippe Agret – Algerian President Abdelmadjid declared pardons for jailed anti-government activists and called early elections Thursday, as the crisis-hit country grapples with renewed protests on the second anniversary of a popular...
Friday, February 19, 2021
US President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuedsay approved a nearly $200 million arms sale to Egypt but vowed to press human rights issues after a US activist reported harassment of his family. The Biden administration — which has vowed to end support for...
Friday, February 19, 2021
The United Nations on Wednesday condemned a suspected “targeted mortar attack” in southern Libya that it said killed a child and wounded 29 people. The reported attack in the Sebha region, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) south of the capital Tripoli, took...
Friday, February 19, 2021
By Abdellah Cheballah – Shuttered assembly plants, jailed bosses, laid-off workers. Algeria’s once ambitious plans to create a flagship auto industry have turned into a fiasco. The country’s recent years of political turmoil have also seen its...
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Tunisia will receive its coronavirus jabs in March, postponing the expected start of its vaccination campaign, a health official said Wednesday. The government had previously announced it was expecting an initial 94,000 doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca-Oxford jabs to...
Thursday, February 18, 2021
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for all foreign troops and mercenaries to leave war-torn Libya during a meeting with the country newly appointed leader Tuesday, his spokesman said. Guterres “spoke separately with the President of the...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The Moroccan authorities dispatched police reinforcement to the northern city of Fnideq, where protests have erupted over social and economic despair among the population. Moroccan media reported rallies as having erupted because of the closure of the border with the...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Macron says France to “decapitate” Al-Qaeda in the Sahel France will intensify its efforts to help “decapitate” Qaeda-linked groups in the Sahel, President Emmanuel Macron told regional leaders via video conference on Tuesday, according to AFP. Macron said...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Kherrata, Algeria, Feb 16, 2021 (AFP) – Several thousand Algerians rallied in a northern town Tuesday, almost two years since the start of the “Hirak” protests which swept former strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. Demonstrators brandished...
Friday, February 12, 2021
Libya’s eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar offered his backing Thursday for a peace process that seeks to end a decade of chaos, after meeting the head of a new transitional presidential council. The military commander met with Mohammad Younes Menfi, a former...
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
By Hicham Rafih – Authorities in Morocco faced mounting questions and calls for accountability Wednesday, two days after 28 people died when heavy rain flooded a basement factory in the port city of Tangiers. “The victims were trapped with no way to get...
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Libya has rescued more than 1,500 would-be migrants off its west coast in the past week, a non-governmental organisation said. “The Libyan coastguard has conducted several rescue operations from a week ago until (Wednesday) and rescued about 1,500 people,”...
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Around 20 United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in an attack on their base in central Mali on Wednesday, a UN spokesperson said, offering a provisional toll. Unidentified militants attacked a temporary base near Kerena, a village in the war-torn centre of the...
Thursday, February 11, 2021
In response to this article As a former journalist, I sympathize with others who struggle to find the correct wording to describe territories and movements. However, I must take issue gently with the item in today’s weekly recap on the Polisario attack in...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Fifteen parties in Chad’s fragmented opposition said on Tuesday that they had named a single candidate to contest presidential elections on April 11 against the 30-year incumbent, Idriss Deby Itno. Their champion is Theophile Bebzoune Bongoro, a 55-year-old...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Moscow is prepared for “constructive” work with Libya’s newly selected interim leaders, the Russian foreign ministry said Monday. In a statement it said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a phone call with Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and Mohammad...
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...
