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...
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...
