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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Sahel: Chad’s dictator Idriss Deby gets a new title: “Maréchal du Tchad”
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Turkey-Greece dispute continues to escalate
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Niger: Intense counter-insurgency operation underway in southern Niger
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Algeria: With a bankrupt economy and poor governance, Algeria wants to revisit its trade agreement with EU
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Algeria: Journalist Drareni and activists Hirak Benlarbi and Hamitouche sentenced to prison by Algerian regime
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Tunisia arrests 23 migrant smugglers, under intense pressure from Italy to halt sea crossings
Algeria braces for more spread of virus as government allows reopening of thousands of mosques on 15 August
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...