Morocco: EU withdraws Morocco from list of safe Covid-19 countries
Tunisia: Central region of Hamma shuts down markets and public baths amid Covid-19 flare-up
Morocco deploys the military to police the curfew in Tangier
Algeria: Five-story building collapses in Mila after earthquake rattled the region
Growing tension between Rome and Tunis over illegal immigration
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Sahel: Chad army unable to contain Boko Haram in Lake Chad
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Algeria: Currency depreciation, inflation, recession, and the pandemic: an economy in turmoil
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Turkey resumes search for oil in eastern Mediterranean, causes uproar at EU
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Mali’s new Constitutional Court president
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Niger: Gunmen kill French tourists in Kouré
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Gunmen have killed 21 villagers in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, police said Friday, in the latest deadly violence between ethnic Fulani herders and local farmers over grazing and water rights. Community leaders however said a higher total of 33 people were...Turkish President seeks to ease concerns over weakening currency
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brushed off concerns over the weakening value of the Turkey’s currency on Friday, saying that the fluctuations against the dollar and euro were temporary and that the economy would emerge stronger. The lira hit a record low of 7.29...
Niger confronted with multiple natural disasters
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Mali braces for more political turmoil, as calls for protests build up
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Mali president appoints new constitutional court chief in a bid to save his job
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Chad: Worsening human rights record in Chad after death of civilians in prison
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Morocco travel sector facing a daunting outlook
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Algeria military establishment continues to undergo leadership purge
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Sahel: Government reshuffle in Mauritania
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Sahel: Some 40 migrants perish off the coast of Mauritania
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As tensions escalate in the east Med Sea, Egypt and Greece announce joint economic zone
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Environment: The sad ending of a giraffe, killed by Niger’s heavy rains
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Istanbul, Aug 6, 2020 – Turkey’s lira set a new record low against the US dollar on Thursday as investors worried about the government’s economic policies and dollar reserves appeared to be running low. The lira was trading at 7.29 against the...
Libya: Turkish and Italian officials visit Libya’s UN-recognised government
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Thousands of women in Turkey took to the streets on Wednesday to demand that the government does not withdraw from a landmark treaty on preventing domestic violence. The protests were the biggest in recent weeks as anger grows over the rising number of women killed by...
Sahel: UN seeks to integrate Mali refugees in Niger population
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Nigerian police on Wednesday arrested dozens of protesters demanding better governance from President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, activists and lawyers said. But police said the protesters were arrested for breaching COVID-19 rules on social distancing....Spread of Covid-19 accelerates in Turkey
Turkey has expressed concern over the rising number of coronavirus cases as the daily infection toll exceeded 1,000 for the second day in a row on Wednesday. Ankara has eased most of the restrictions that were in place since the first case was recorded in March,...
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Nile dam. Sudan threatens to withdraw
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Restrictions imposed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan and a handful of other inmates at a Turkish island prison are not acceptable, an anti-torture group said Wednesday, urging he be granted more outside contact and less solitary confinement. The Kurdistan...Lagos: Partial closure of Africa’s second-largest bridge causes traffic mayhem
Lagos, Aug 5, 2020 – Monster traffic jams are nothing new for Lagos, but the partial closure of the city’s main bridge for repairs has made getting about an even greater ordeal for its 20 million inhabitants. The on-ramp to the Third Mainland Bridge has...President Buhari recognizes Nigeria’s severe security problems
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a rare interview, on Friday acknowledged the scale of security problems in two troubled regions, saying developments were “very, very disturbing”. Buhari came to power in 2015 vowing to crush a bloody jihadist...Lagos reopens mosques on 7 July, churches on 9 July
The governor of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos said on Saturday churches and mosques would reopen next week as the authorities move to ease the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic. “Places of worship in Lagos will now be opened from Friday, the 7th...
Immigration: Influx of migrants gives new momentum to Italy’s far-right movement
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Lagos, Aug 4, 2020 – Nigeria’s largest airline Air Peace said Tuesday it had laid off a number of pilots and cut salaries in order to cope with the impact of the coronavirus on its operations. The private carrier did not disclose the number of pilots...
Sahel: Government of Chad slows Internet access to a trickle
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