Friday, December 18, 2020
The government of Chad announced Thursday it would open an inquiry after Facebook said it had closed down fake accounts used by Russia and France in a battle for influence in Africa. The US tech giant said on Tuesday it had closed down two Russian-linked networks of...
Friday, December 18, 2020
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Friday, December 18, 2020
Algeria has announced tighter state controls over online media, sparking alarm in the North African country whose pro-democracy movement is under heightened pressure from the government. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s government, already accused of stifling...
Friday, December 18, 2020
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Friday, December 18, 2020
Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram experienced their first full day of freedom on Friday after a nearly week-long ordeal. But relief at their survival mingled with concern that many others...
Friday, December 18, 2020
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa’s Maghreb region and beyond, Wednesday joined the UN list of the world’s intangible cultural heritage. The countries that submitted the listing to UNESCO — Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and...
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most notorious prisons in collective punishment for a foiled September escape attempt. The New York-based watchdog said evidence including a leaked video and...
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia’s revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in the rural town where it began, the mood on Thursday was one of anger rather than hope. It was in Sidi Bouzid that Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit and...
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed, Italy’s prime minister and foreign minister said Thursday after visiting Benghazi to secure their release. “Our fishermen are free,”...
Monday, December 14, 2020
Libyan Member of Parliament (MP) Omar Garmil has died in Morocco weeks after being infected with Covid-19, multiple sources said Monday. The UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and the UN mission in Libya offered their condolences without...
Monday, December 14, 2020
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group on Monday claimed responsibility for the weekend attack on a village in neighbouring Niger that left 27 dead. More people were wounded and some reported missing in the assault on Saturday evening on Toumour in the Diffa...
Monday, December 14, 2020
Outrage is simmering in Nigeria after gunmen kidnapped hundreds of secondary school students, while the government said rescue efforts were under way. At least 333 students were still missing from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in northwestern...
Monday, December 14, 2020
Turkey has detained 11 people suspected of spying and abducting an Iranian political dissident on behalf of Tehran, the Turkish police said on Monday. The announcement followed a rare public spat between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and top Iranian officials...
Monday, December 14, 2020
An ally of President Vladimir Putin has shelled out nearly $500,000 to two Russian political operatives recently freed by Libya after 18 months in captivity, his company said Monday. Russian media last week reported that Maxim Shugaley and his interpreter Samir...
Monday, December 14, 2020
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday he was recovering from the Covid-19 illness, in his first televised appearance since he was hospitalised in Germany almost two months ago. “Thanks to God… I have started on the road to...
Friday, December 11, 2020
Nigeria’s health minister has warned of a second wave in the coronavirus pandemic following a sudden rise in infections in the vast west African nation, his office said Thursday. Osagie Ehanire said 1,843 cases were recorded last week compared with 1,235 two...
Friday, December 11, 2020
Jihadists in northern Mozambique have stepped up an insurgency aimed at carving out a caliphate in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado. The campaign has claimed more than 2,400 lives, according to the US-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) group,...
Friday, December 11, 2020
Russia on Friday condemned US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, saying it contravened international law. Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov called the US decision “unilateral”,...
Friday, December 11, 2020
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for an “ill-recited” poem, seen as implying Iran’s northwestern provinces were part of Azerbaijan. Erdogan spoke in Azerbaijan’s capital...
Friday, December 11, 2020
Turkey on Friday dismissed as “unlawful” a European Union plan for sanctions over its maritime disputes with Greece and Cyprus, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged calm. After a marathon Thursday summit, EU leaders decided to draw up a list of Turkish...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Mozambican soldiers on Thursday repelled Islamist militants that attacked and occupied a northern village in their closest raid yet to a giant gas project, military sources said. The jihadists launched the assault late Monday on the village of Mute, located about 20...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Disputed and divided Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco’s control, where tensions have simmered since the 1970s. An Algerian-backed independence movement — which holds a fifth of the territory — has campaigned for a vote...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
First impressions, by Arezki Daoud Today, 10 December 2020, Morocco said it will resume -“with minimum delay- diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. The announcement came after pressure from the United States, specifically from its outgoing President,...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Residents of Egypt’s restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied their villages. Now, they are returning to find their homes booby-trapped. “I lost my sister-in-law and her nine-month-old baby when an...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
This week, Algeria experienced a series of court decisions that have accelerated the fight against corruption. Sentences have been issued and new arrests were made. But the focus on the Bouteflika-era ministers and senior figures is evidence that the campaign is...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Blacklisting Nigeria The United States on Monday placed Nigeria for the first time on a religious freedom blacklist, pressing an ally as Christian groups voice growing insecurity. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a northern Mozambican village in their closest raid yet to a giant gas project, military sources told AFP Tuesday. Jihadists launch an assault late Monday on the village of Mute, located about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Ten Nigerian troops were killed and one was taken hostage in clashes with IS-linked jihadists in northeast Nigerian Borno state, according to two security sources. Clashes erupted on Monday when a team of soldiers stormed a camp of Islamic State West Africa Province...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Paris and Rabat signed an agreement Monday on repatriating underage Moroccan migrants, the most complex of the measures demanded by European countries to deal with incoming migrants from the Maghreb region. The agreement calls for “concrete tools” for...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Egyptian army said Tuesday it had killed 40 suspected jihadist militants since September in air and ground operations in the Sinai region, site of an Islamist insurgency. In a video statement posted on Facebook, the army said its air force had “managed to...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Thousands of striking Tunisian medics and hospital staff staged an angry protest on Tuesday over the country’s crumbling public health infrastructure, after the death of a young doctor in a lift accident. Badreddine Aloui, 27, died last week after falling down...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Turkey on Tuesday denounced the seizure of a commercial ship by the forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, warning of “serious consequences” if its 17 crewmen are not freed. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) had announced late Monday that it...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
A New York judge on Tuesday ordered US intelligence agencies to acknowledge they possess a tape recording of the 2018 murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in a ruling hailed by rights activists. The judge also instructed the Central Intelligence Agency...
