Spain confronts major migrant crisis on Canary IslandsF

Spain confronts major migrant crisis on Canary IslandsF

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In North Africa, hospitals are in a state of warF

In North Africa, hospitals are in a state of warF

Covid assaults the MENA region Iran, Jordan and Morocco have recorded thousands of new Covid-19 infections in recent days, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that lockdowns could not stamp out the pandemic. “More than 60 percent of all cases in...
Coronavirus: Latest global developmentsF

Coronavirus: Latest global developmentsF

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis as of 17 November: Europe tops 15 million cases – Europe on Tuesday topped 15 million confirmed infections, while France passed the two million mark. Worldwide, the coronavirus has killed at least...
Egypt continues to jail human rights activistsF

Egypt continues to jail human rights activistsF

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday arrested a second staff member of a leading local human rights group, the organisation said, days after its office manager was detained. “Karim Ennarah, director of criminal justice at EIPR, arrested while on vacation in Dahab,...

Pompeo’s pointless trip to Turkey: no one listens to him anymoreF

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a fraught visit to Istanbul on Tuesday that included no official meetings and an agenda focused on religious freedoms that Ankara dismissed as “irrelevant”. Relations between Washington and its strategic NATO ally...

Mozambique: Jihadists wreck havoc on northern MozambiqueF

The UN called Friday for urgent measures to protect civilians in Mozambique’s northeastern Cabo Delgado province, where jihadists are wreaking havoc, warning that the population was “desperate”.   The UN rights office said attacks by armed groups had...

Turkey: Erdogan administration investigates Istanbul mayorF

Turkey’s interior ministry has launched a probe into the Istanbul mayor over his opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream of building an alternative to the Bosphorus Strait, the mayor’s spokesman said Monday. Erdogan argues that the new...

Nigeria: Ex-footballer Obodo escapes from Nigeria kidnappersF

Former Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo, who spent over a decade in Serie A, including spells with Fiorentina and Udinese, said Monday that he had escaped from suspected kidnappers in the country’s oil-rich Delta state. Obodo was driving around the southern...
Algeria: Media provocateur, Anis Rahmani, gets five years in prisonF

Algeria: Media provocateur, Anis Rahmani, gets five years in prisonF

The head of Algeria’s top private media group was jailed for five years on Sunday, the company said, the toughest sentence handed to a press mogul in the North African country. Anis Rahmani, chief of the Ennahar group, is the latest figure close to the clan of...
Algeria: Covid upsurge prompts Algeria to impose new restrictionsF

Algeria: Covid upsurge prompts Algeria to impose new restrictionsF

Algeria imposed new coronavirus restrictions Sunday, closing sport and cultural centres as well as beaches after a spike in infections. The government called on Algerians to fight what it called a “concerning phase” of the pandemic. Algeria has registered...
Morocco and Polisario face off in the Western Sahara, exchange fireF

Morocco and Polisario face off in the Western Sahara, exchange fireF

Morocco’s army has responded to fire by the Polisario Front along the UN-patrolled buffer zone in Western Sahara, said an online report picked up by the official MAP news agency. “Since 13 November 2020, Polisario militias have fired provocative shots...
Libya: The civil war’s human tragedyF

Libya: The civil war’s human tragedyF

Tarhuna, Libya: A year ago armed men took Mohamed al-Magri’s son for questioning as fighting raged around the Libyan capital, and now he fears Haitham was killed and buried in a mass grave. Magri believes the masked men took his son at gunpoint in revenge,...
German prosecutors charge man with spying for EgyptF

German prosecutors charge man with spying for EgyptF

A man who worked in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s press office has been charged with spying for Egypt, prosecutors said Monday. The German national, named as Amin A., began working for the visitor service of the federal government press office (BPA), headed...