Monday, November 16, 2020
Monday, November 16, 2020
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...
Monday, November 16, 2020
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...
Monday, November 16, 2020
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...
Monday, November 16, 2020
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,...
Monday, November 16, 2020
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...
Monday, November 16, 2020
The reported deaths of Al-Qaeda’s top two leaders in recent months have raised questions about the future strategy and strength of the terror network, already a shadow of the global force it was two decades ago. The New York Times reported last week that...
Saturday, November 14, 2020
For three decades, a UN-monitored ceasefire has kept a fragile peace in the disputed Western Sahara. Now a row over a remote desert truck stop is prompting talk of a return to war. The pro-independence Polisario Front declared the ceasefire over on Friday, after...
Saturday, November 14, 2020
The pro-independence Polisario Front said Saturday that clashes are continuing in the disputed territory of Western Sahara after the Moroccan army launched an operation in the buffer zone on its southern border. “Fighting is continuing after the crime committed...
Friday, November 13, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
An Egyptian man set himself alight in central Cairo in an anti-government protest on Thursday, but was stopped before the blaze grew too severe, a security source said. Mohammed Hosni doused himself in fuel while another man filmed him making a speech criticising the...
Friday, November 13, 2020
The 23.8-percent turnout was a record low for a major vote in Algeria, with fewer than 15 percent of eligible voters endorsing the constitutional document Algerians approved constitutional reforms in a referendum, though with a record low turnout, the country’s...
Friday, November 13, 2020
Dozens of polio cases have been detected in Chad just months after the UN declared the disease eradicated in Africa, but the government and World Health Organization said Friday that the infections were a vaccine-derived strain. Sixty-six cases have been detected so...
Friday, November 13, 2020
France announced Friday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed the military commander of an Al-Qaeda-aligned group linked to attacks in the region. The killing of Ba Ag Moussa is a major boost for the thousands-strong French Barkhane force stationed in the...
Friday, November 13, 2020
Italian coastguard rescues migrant boats near Lampedusa Italy’s coastguard rescued about 170 migrants on two separate rubber oats in Mediterranean waters, news agency AGI reported Friday, hours after a crisis hotline signalled they were in distress. Some 79...
Friday, November 13, 2020
Military and political organisation in Western Sahara The Popular Front for the Liberation of and , better known by its Polisario Front, is a seeking to end the occupation of through and political advocacy. Tracing its origin to a Sahrawi nationalist organization...
Friday, November 13, 2020
Disputed territory in north-western Africa Western Sahara is a United Nations–recognized in . It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence and has been...
Friday, November 13, 2020
Polisario Front declares end of truce The pro-independence Polisario Front declared a three-decade-old ceasefire in the disputed Western Sahara was over on Friday after Morocco launched an operation to reopen the road to neighbouring Mauritania. The Polisario, which...
Thursday, November 12, 2020
In this brief podcast recorded on 12 November 2020, MEA Risk’s Arezki Daoud provides an update on the Coronavirus in the Maghreb region. The state of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Maghreb looks rather bleak as we are reaching the mid-point of November 2020. As...
Thursday, November 12, 2020
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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Monday, November 9, 2020
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