Tunisia: Economic and social despair fuel unrest in Tunisia
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Egypt: first commercial flight from Qatar to Egypt in three and a half years
The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday, following the end of a regional crisis. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in cutting ties with Qatar in June...
Tunisia: Chaos and unrest in several cities, troops deployed
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Algeria says oil and gas exports down in double-digit rates in 2020
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Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
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Tunisia PM reorganizes government cabinet, dozen ministers affected by reshuffle
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Tunisia: Switzerland may unfreeze dictator’s ill-gotten millions stashed in its banks, the Tunisian people could lose it all
Tunisia could lose millions of dollars stashed in Switzerland by the family of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a senior official said Saturday. The funds are currently frozen by Swiss authorities but a deadline to claw back funds ends midnight on Tuesday and...
Covid-19: Despite promising vaccines, worldwide deaths soar as nations face uncertainty
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Sahel: Violence intensifies in Mali as France announces the killing of 15 insurgents
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he wanted to find a solution to Turkey’s suspension from the F-35 fighter jet programme with the new US administration under Joe Biden. Ties between the two NATO allies have been strained by...Covid-19: Nigeria anticipates the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, details sketchy
Nigerian authorities have warned on Friday against the circulation of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country, where 10 million real doses of the shots are expected in March. “There are reports of fake vaccines in Nigeria,” the Director General of...
Sahel: Foreign forces unable to bring stability to Mali, four UN peacekeepers killed in Bambara Maoude
The death toll from an attack on UN peacekeepers in Mali has risen to four after another soldier died from his wounds, the United Nations said Thursday. A detachment of Ivorian peacekeepers was travelling between Douentza and Timbuktu in the northwest on Wednesday...Turkey rolls out China’s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stripped down to a black t-shirt and got vaccinated on Thursday as the nation of 83 million people began rolling out China’s Sinovac jab despite conflicting data about its efficacy. The 66-year-old Turkish leader was...
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
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Breaking: Algeria: Terror attack in Tebessa kills five civilians
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Turkey’s growing influence in the Maghreb, from drones to soap operas
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Arab tyrants and their cronies: how Tunisia’s Ben Ali clan ended in utter misery and disgrace
Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like empire that once pocketed a fifth of national private sector profits, are scattered across the world. Few have faced justice. Here is an overview. Ben Ali...
Tunisia: Celebrating one decade of protest and a whole lot more to come
By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli: Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success story — but celebrations will be muted when it marks on Thursday one decade since protesters ousted its autocratic leader. The revolutionary...
Algeria’s ex leaders committed more crimes with the help of Gulf donors
Former Algerian premier Ahmed Ouyahia, on trial for corruption, admitted Saturday to receiving gold bars from Gulf donors then selling them on the black market, the official APS news agency reported. Ouyahia and fellow ex-prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal are accused...
US-Africa: Trump’s disastrous reputation in Africa
As they watched a violent mob smash into the US Capitol, some in Africa could not help but see a little irony in the chaos incited by President Donald Trump, who once famously called African nations “shitholes”. Others across the continent offered...
Morocco: Torrential rain and dilapidated drainage systems kill one in Casablanca
Torrential rain in Morocco this week after a period of drought has caused at least one death in its economic capital Casablanca, as bad weather remains forecast for the coming days. Authorities said one person was killed and four injured after the roof of a structure...
Tunisia says it neutralized Al-Qaeda cell plotting “terrorist attacks”
Tunisia has arrested a suspected branch leader of Al-Qaeda in North Africa, along with several others suspected of planning “terrorist” attacks, a judicial spokesman said Friday. “Two dangerous wanted individuals, one of whom is an Al-Qaeda...
Libya: Growing pressure on Tripoli-based government over mass graves
Human Rights Watch appealed Thursday to Libya’s internationally recognised government to launch an investigation aimed at identifying hundreds of people reported missing in a western town where mass graves have been unearthed. The United Nations voiced...
Algeria’s foreign intelligence chief fired
The head of Algeria’s foreign intelligence agency General Mohamed Bouzit, known as Youcef was dismissed on Thursday, January 7. Bouzit headed the Directorate of Documentation and External Security (DDSE), an intelligence agency that provided assessment on...
Jailed Algerian pro-democracy activists in hospital amid hunger strike
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger strike protesting their detention, the CNLD prisoners’ rights group said. Mohamed Tadjadit, Noureddine Khimoud and Abdelhak Ben Rahmani began...
Sahel: Reports of 20 villagers killed in Mali region of Bounti
France said on Tuesday it had killed dozens of jihadists in a weekend air strike in central Mali, while several villagers and a local group said up to 20 wedding guests were killed by a helicopter. Social media has been buzzing with rumours since Sunday about events...
Tunisia wants UN monitors in Libya
Tunisia, the current president of the UN Security Council, called Monday for a resolution sending international monitors to support Libya’s brittle ceasefire to be adopted as soon as possible. “We hope that it will be adopted as soon as possible”...Mali: Pro-Qaeda GSIM claims killings of French soldiers in Mali
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and terrorism charges is being denied medication in custody, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Aamer Abdelmonem is among at least 27 journalists the...
Chad: Deadly communal clashes in Salamat
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Algeria: Nine killed in army-insurgent clashes in Tipaza, including three soldiers
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Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
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Algeria: 20 migrants killed in new year accident near Sahara town of Tamanrasset
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Libya: More evidence of Moscow’s meddling in Libya affairs: Russians operatives freed in Libya
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Sahel: Massacre in west Niger, hundred killed in ‘terror’ attacks
“Terrorists” killed around 100 people in two villages in western Niger, the latest in a string of civilian massacres that have rocked the jihadist-plagued Tillaberi region, a local mayor said Sunday. The attacks on the villages of Tchoma Bangou and...
Mali: Two more French soldiers killed in IED explosion in Menaka
Two French soldiers died when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northeastern Mali on Saturday, just days after three others were killed in similar fashion. Their deaths brought to 50 the number of French soldiers killed in the West African nation...