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...
Italy: Overwhelmed by new influx of migrants, Italy calls on Tunisia to help
Tunis, Aug 17, 2020 – Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a visit to Tunisia, from where many of them cross the Mediterranean Sea. After a meeting with the Tunisian President Kais Saied, Italy’s...
Niger: Dozen captives freed from Boko Haram
Niamey, Aug 17, 2020 – Troops from Niger have freed 11 villagers, four of them children, who had been seized by Boko Haram jihadists and taken across the border into Nigeria, local officials said Monday. “The hostages were freed by our troops on the...Nigeria to resume international flights end of August
Lagos, Aug 17, 2020 – Nigeria will resume international flights on August 29 as it eases restrictions over the novel coronavirus pandemic, the country’s aviation minister said Monday. Africa’s most populous country shut its airspace in March to...
Libya: Foreign countries ‘continue to massively arm Libya’ says Germany’s top diplomat
Tripoli, Aug 17, 2020 – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, visiting war-torn Libya’s capital Monday, warned of a “deceptive calm” since fighting stalled around Sirte, the central hometown of fallen dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Outside powers are...Egypt: More than 20 players of Masry football team test positive to Covid19
Covid-Egypt: Egypt reopens two dozen isolation wards with growing fear of new Covid-19 wave
Covid-Egypt: Foreigners landing in Egypt are required to show results from Covid test, except for tourists flying to Red Sea resorts
Tunisia: Heatwave in Tunisia, temperatures reaching 46°C (155 F)
Algeria: Forest fires rage in Algeria
Algeria: Despite resumption of public transport, Algiers metro remains out of service
Egypt: Land dispute claims six lives in Fayoum, scores wounded
Egypt: Train derails near Shubra al-Khaima station Qalyubia
Egypt: Boat sinks in Nile river section of Beheira, killing four
Libya: Major power outages in eastern Libya
Libya: GNA government accuses warlord Khaftar forces of having killed more than 50 people with mines
Morocco: 24 confirmed Covid-19 infections among players and staff of Tangier’s football team Ittihad
Morocco: Sections of Casablanca’s old town quarantined over Covid-19, five local team footballers infected
Niger: Boko Haram increases kidnappings in Diffa, population displacement underway
Niger: State of emergency extended to entire Tillabéri region, Kouré reserve closed
Niger bans motorcycles in Koure Kollo
Niger: French state travel advisory places entire Niger in red zone, except for capital Niamey
Bandits raid Ukuru in Niger state, kill 14 residents
Dozens of armed cattle thieves killed 14 people and stole herds during a raid on a village in central Nigeria, police said Thursday. The latest deadly attack by cattle rustlers in the restive region was on the Ukuru village in Niger state on Wednesday, regional police...
Niger: Floods kill dozens, 80,000 people affected
Abidjan, Aug 13, 2020 – Thirty-three people in Niger have died and more than 80,000 have been affected by floods caused by heavy rains, the country’s emergency services said on Thursday. The worst-hit regions are Maradi in south-central Niger, Tahoua and...
Mali: How Mali security services sabotaged peace
Aug 14, 2020 – United Nations experts have accused senior army and intelligence officials in Mali of deliberately obstructing a shaky 2015 peace accord, originally designed to reduce violence in the war-torn West African country. The revelations appear in an...
Regional affairs: Tensions rise in Eastern Mediterranean Sea
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Egypt: Another senior opposition figure dies in Egyptian prison
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Algeria: Supporters of jailed journalist Drareni launch international appeal
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Ankara, Aug 12, 2020 – Students will return to classrooms in Turkey in late September nearly a month after the start of the new academic year, the government announced Wednesday, as daily coronavirus cases remain above 1,000. Turkish officials are worried as the...
Mali security forces used excessive force against protesters
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Algeria’s outrageous justice system: jails some, releases others for the same offenses: signs of unstable regime
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Baghdad, Aug 11, 2020 – Two high-ranking Iraqi officers were killed Tuesday in what the army said was a Turkish drone attack in the autonomous Kurdish region, where Ankara has for weeks been raiding militant positions. The strike killed the two border guard...
Libya: Tripoli airport re-opens
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