Algerians called to vote again in November
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Tunisia: New PM submits list of cabinet members to parliament
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Hasakeh, Syria, Aug 25, 2020 – Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid said her life had become an endless quest for fresh water, three weeks into the latest supply cut by Turkish forces. “I spend the whole time running after water...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
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Libya: Warlord Haftar not on board with ceasefire, wants war to continue
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Lagos, Aug 24, 2020 – Nigeria’s secret police say two of its men were killed Sunday by Biafran separatists who in turn claim 21 of their members were killed in an unprovoked attack on a peaceful meeting. The Department of State Service (DSS) said one of...Nigerian villages are target of incessant attacks by bandits
Lagos, Aug 24, 2020 – More than 1,100 villagers have been killed this year by armed gangs in several states across central and northwest Nigeria, where raids have escalated, Amnesty International said in a report Monday. “The Nigerian authorities have left...
As Algeria-EU trade deal approaches, Algerian officials want new terms
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Libyans protest poor living conditions
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Immigration: 22 bodies recovered off the coast of Zwara, Libya
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Libya: Another initiative that is likely to flop again
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Mali: Coup leaders insist on military rule over the coming years
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Mali: Ousted Malian president “looks tired but relaxed.”
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Breaking: Libyan rivals reach agreement on ceasefire and elections
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Libya: Red Cross warns of fast spreading Covid-19 cases in Libya
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Morocco: New anti-covid measures in Casablanca and Marrakesh as infections spike
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Immigration: More migrants die trying to reach Spanish islands
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Turkey transforms Kariye Museum into mosque
Istanbul, Aug 21, 2020 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. The decision to transform the Kariye...
Opec reports members’ conformity to lower production, signals market improvements
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Mali: While Mali people want their President out for incompetence, world leaders run to his rescue
Coup leaders in Mali faced a wave of international pressure on Wednesday, a day after they forced out a president weakened by months of mass protests. The chorus of disapproval was led by the United States, African Union and European Union — all demanding that...
Morocco: Migrants storm border fence separating Morocco to Spain’s Melilla
Madrid, Aug 20, 2020 – One African man died and eight people were injured when around 300 migrants tried to storm the border fence separating the Spanish enclave Melilla from Morocco on Thursday, local authorities said. The man, whose identity and nationality...
Egypt: Sisi strengthens his powers with loyalists winning upper house seats
Cairo, Aug 19, 2020 – Egypt’s electoral commission said Wednesday that candidates on an electoral list loyal to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won overwhelmingly in party elections held to a newly-restored upper house last week. But the polling, on...Mass kidnapping in northeast Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Aug 19, 2020 – Jihadists have taken hundreds of hostages in a northeast Nigerian town where people had just returned after fleeing their homes, locals and militia sources said Wednesday. Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP)...
Turkey vows to pursue oil and gas exploration in the eastern Med
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Wednesday not to yield to “pirates” and to keep searching for energy in disputed eastern Mediterranean waters despite EU pressure to stop. Long-seated suspicions between regional powers resurfaced when Turkey...
Libya: Nearly 50 people perish in the Med Sea
At least 45 migrants and refugees perished off Libya this week in the deadliest shipwreck there so far this year, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The UN agencies for refugees and migration said in a statement that 37 survivors from Monday’s sinking, who...
Libya: Patchwork of divided tribes complicate the Libyan crisis
As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya’s civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to join forces with some of the neighbouring country’s powerful tribes. Cairo hopes the alliances would boost its legitimacy if it were...
Algeria: Birthplace of the Hirak movement, Kherrata experiences first post-confinement rally
We may have missed this story and reported as a minor event, and in fact, no national newspapers reported it, but thousands of people came out to demonstrate against the Algerian regime on Saturday, 15 August in Kherrata, 60 km east of Bejaia, in what was the first...
Mali: The military is now in charge
1176 issue: week ending 20 August 2020 Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 – Mali awoke on Wednesday to a new chapter in its troubled history after rebel military leaders forced President Boubacar Keita from office, prompting its West African neighbours to threaten border...
Mali: President Boubacar Keita resigns and the people are cheering
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 – Mali’s president said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed” early Wednesday, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the fragile West African nation. Rebel...
Video: Mutiny in Mali
Rebel soldiers holding Mali president African Union condemns arrest of Malian president Bamako, Aug 18, 2020 (AFP) – Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse are both being held by rebel soldiers, a senior government official...
Breaking: Mutiny leaders announce arrest of president and Prime Minister
Developing story: Mutineering soldiers in Mali on Tuesday detained President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse, one of their leaders said. “We can tell you that the president and the prime minister are under our control,” the leader,...
Libya: Turkey and Qatar intensify their involvement in Libya
Qatar and Turkey have signed an accord to send military advisers and instructors for the armed forces of Libya’s Government of National Accord, the UN-recognised GNA said. “We have reached an agreement with Turkish Foreign Minister Hulusi Akar and...
Former Mauritanian president under investigation for alleged embezzlement
Nouakchott, Aug 18, 2020 – Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, under suspicion over embezzlement dating from his time in power, was being questioned by police on Tuesday for a second day, one of his lawyers said. The meeting came on the heels...
Sahel: The unfolding Malian crisis
Aug 18, 2020 – Mali has been gripped for months by a political crisis that has sparked the country’s worst unrest in years, as a protest movement galvanised by a disputed election insists that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resign. After reports that...
Tourism heavily hit in Morocco’s most-visited city
Sahel: Fears of a soldiers’ mutiny in Mali as political crisis lingers
Bamako, Aug 18, 2020 – Gunfire broke out at a key army base near Mali’s capital Bamako on Tuesday, officials and witnesses said, triggering fears of a mutiny in the crisis-stricken Sahel state. Details of the events were sketchy, but the sources said the...
Egypt: Another building collapses in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt – A listed building in the centre of Egypt’s capital partially collapsed injuring five people Saturday, in the latest such incident, a security source said. Authorities who rushed to the building on Kasr al-Nile street, near the iconic Tahrir...Chinese workers freed from kidnappers
Warri, Nigeria – Four Chinese workers abducted from a quarry site in southern Nigeria have been freed, police said Sunday. Unknown gunmen seized the Chinese nationals in Akpabuyo in Cross Rivers state last month and killed their police guard. “We were able...