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...
Monday, December 7, 2020
Mali’s interim legislature on Saturday elected Colonel Malick Diaw, a member of the military junta that toppled president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August, as its president. The 121-seat body known as the National Transition Council was meeting for its...
Monday, December 7, 2020
Tunisia on Sunday extended a night-time curfew until the end of the year in a bid to tackle spiking novel coronavirus cases, amid growing discontent and anti-government protests in the North African country. Following a meeting of its anti-coronavirus taskforce, the...
Monday, December 7, 2020
Algerian opposition activist Karim Tabbou, a key figure in anti-government protests last year, was given a one-year suspended sentence on Monday for “undermining national security”, one of his lawyers said. A court in Kolea, near Algiers, also ordered...
Monday, December 7, 2020
Algeria’s prime minister has sounded the alarm over reported ransoms paid to “terrorist groups” for the freeing of hostages, weeks after the liberation of a French aid worker in Mali. “Algeria notes, with great concern, continued transfers to...
Monday, December 7, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday rejected criticism of his close ties with visiting Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, saying that to take a tougher line on respect for human rights would be “counterproductive”. Macron hosted Sisi, whom he...
Monday, December 7, 2020
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Saturday, December 5, 2020
Mali’s interim government on Thursday announced the composition of a new legislative body for the West African country’s transition to civilian rule, with the military retaining a strong role. Young army officers in the conflict-ridden Sahel state toppled...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
European Council chief Charles Michel said Friday that Turkey has not de-escalated its stand-off with Greece and warned EU members now need to consider tougher options. “I think that the cat and mouse game needs to end,” Michel said, referring to...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
A yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 172 people so far, the World Health Organization said Friday. The outbreak poses an extra challenge to the country’s health system as Africa’s most populous nation deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, several...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he hopes France will get rid of Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, the latest salvo in an escalating war of words between the two leaders. Turkey is embroiled in a series of disputes with France and its EU partners,...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Two journalists from the Russian television channel NTV have been arrested by Turkish police for allegedly filming a drone production unit without permission, NTV and a Turkish source said Friday. Moscow and Ankara have agreed to jointly monitor a Russian-mediated...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Islamist militants in Mozambique killed two dozen soldiers in an ambush attack, military sources told AFP, a significant show of force against the military’s struggle to quell an insurgency in the north. A shadowy jihadist group has wreaked havoc in the northern...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Britain is deploying 300 troops to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali to help strengthen security and human rights there, its defence ministry said Thursday. The British troops will provide the UN mission with “a highly specialised reconnaissance capability,...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Two forestry workers were killed and two soldiers were reported missing after an attack early Friday in southwestern Niger, the first in the region in almost a year, sources said. “Assailants targeted a position of the Nigerien armed forces and the water and...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Hundreds of medics protested in Tunisia on Friday after a young doctor died in a hospital elevator accident in the country’s northwest. Badreddedine Aloui, 27, plunged to his death Thursday down an elevator shaft after the lift doors opened but with no elevator...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Moroccan police said Friday they have arrested three men in the northern city of Tetouan suspected of “terrorist plots” and links to the Islamic State group. The three had recorded a “video in which they pledge allegiance to the supposed emir of...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Twenty thousand foreign forces and mercenaries are in Libya despite a ceasefire and long-standing arms embargo, the UN envoy said Wednesday, calling the situation a “shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty”. Libya has been wracked by violence and chaos...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
An Algerian soldier was killed Wednesday during a clash with armed Islamists in the country’s northeast, the defence ministry said in a statement. Lelmaya Sifeddine was killed “during a new clash with a terrorist group” during an ongoing operation in...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
The Berbers of Egypt: By Hager Harabech Siwa Oasis, Egypt, Dec 2, 2020 – Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Morocco hopes to launch an ambitious vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus by year-end, but its efforts have sparked suspicion and rumours in the country, hard-hit by the pandemic. The North African kingdom is hoping to immunise 20 million adults against...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Three people died on Wednesday when a dilapidated building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a security source said. “Ambulances and civil protection workers are at the scene” and search operations are underway, said the source, who did not...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Egypt is to “temporarily close” its investigation into the murder in Cairo of Italian student Guilio Regeni, for which Rome named Egyptian security officials as suspect, the two countries said Monday. The judiciary services of the two countries, in a joint...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Egyptian police have detained a photographer for disrespect after he shot images of a dancer in ancient costume at the Pyramid of Djoser outside Cairo, a security source has confirmed. Rumours had swirled on social media for days that the model, Salma al-Shimi, had...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
After years of violence and lawlessness during which the Malian town of Menaka changed hands between rebels and Islamists, a fragile calm has finally returned due to joint patrols by federal troops, militiamen and UN peacekeepers. Situated in the desert northeast of...
Monday, November 30, 2020
