Thursday, May 21, 2020
Dapaong, Togo, May 21, 2020 (By Célia Lebur) – In a makeshift bunker of sacks of rice beneath a tree, heavily-armed Togolese soldiers keep watch over villagers coming and going on foot or bike across the border with Burkina Faso. Just a dried-out river bed...
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Geneva, May 21, 2020 – The United Nations called on the EU on Thursday to reach a deal to take in 160 migrants who have been stranded in the Mediterranean for two weeks. UNHCR refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), urged...
Thursday, May 21, 2020
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
Rabat, May 20, 2020 – Almost half of Moroccans are “anxious” under the mandatory lockdown enforced in mid-March to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, an official survey published Wednesday found. “Being confined and the health threat of COVID-19...
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Algiers, May 20, 2020 – Algeria has sentenced three opposition activists to jail over Facebook posts, in what rights groups said Wednesday was the latest sign of increased repression after the coronavirus lockdown stifled a popular protest movement. Soheib...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ouagadougou, May 20, 2020 – Human Rights Watch called Wednesday on the Burkina Faso authorities to hold an independent investigation into the jail cell deaths of 12 men whose relatives say were executed by the security forces. The 12 men, among 25 arrested for...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ouagadougou, May 20, 2020 – Two Burkina Faso soldiers and five civilian defence volunteers have been killed during an ambush on a military patrol in the restive north of the country, security sources said Tuesday. The attack occurred on Monday as soldiers from...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Bamako, May 20, 2020 – Twenty people have been killed and 11 seriously injured after a minibus and a lorry collided in the south of Mali, the country’s transport ministry said on Wednesday. The accident occurred on Tuesday at 8 pm on a major road linking...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ouagadougou, May 20, 2020 – Two Burkina Faso police and 47 “terrorists” died during a major operation in northwestern Burkina Faso on the border with Mali, the West African country’s army chief of staff said Wednesday. “Following an...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Algiers, May 20, 2020 – Naturalists in Algeria have filmed a Saharan cheetah, a subspecies listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, for the first time in a decade, the national parks authority said. The animal was spotted in the Hoggar Mountains...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Kano, Nigeria, May 19, 2020 – Jihadists have carried out a rare attack on the northeast Nigerian town of Dapchi, where more than 100 schoolgirls were abducted two years ago, military sources and residents said Tuesday. One soldier was killed and three wounded as...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Lagos, May 19, 2020 (By Sophie Bouillon) – African nations grappling to contain coronavirus are scrambling to stop the outbreak worsening the impact of other killer diseases. Across the continent, countries regularly face surges from a raft of diseases that...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
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Monday, May 18, 2020
By Hamza Mekouaz – Deprived of work and access to aid, thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa living in Morocco are struggling to make ends meet under COVID-19 restrictions. “The misery is across the board,” said Ousmane Ba, head of the...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Cairo, May 17, 2020 – Egypt on Sunday announced a lengthening of its night-time curfew and other measures to prevent large gatherings during Eid al-Fitr holidays marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “All shops, malls, restaurants,...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Algiers, May 17, 2020 – The death of a pregnant Algerian doctor from the COVID-19 disease after she was denied maternity leave has sparked an uproar and prompted the dismissal Sunday of a hospital director. Health Minister Abderrahman Benbouzid sacked the...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Tunis, May 18, 2020 – As the novel coronavirus pandemic wipes out a recovery from jihadist attacks in 2015, Tunisia’s vital tourism sector is trying to find ways to avoid going under. “Normally, the season starts now. But there is nobody,” said...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Egyptian security services on Sunday detained the editor-in-chief of prominent independent news outlet Mada Masr, its lawyer said, the latest in a crackdown against journalists. Lina Attallah was arrested outside Cairo’s Tora prison as she was interviewing...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Lagos, May 17, 2020 – Nigeria has seized a British plane for flouting a travel ban imposed as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the aviation minister said Sunday. Flair Aviation, the airline involved, was authorised to conduct...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Lagos, May 17, 2020 – Nigerian jihadist groups are gaining sway in the restive northwest and the region could become a “land bridge” to Islamists across the Sahel, the International Crisis Group warned Monday. Northwestern Nigeria has been wracked by...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Kano, Nigeria, May 18, 2020 – Boko Haram jihadists killed 20 civilians in an attack on a village in restive northeastern Nigeria as inhabitants prepared to break their Ramadan fast, residents and local security personnel said Monday. Insurgents in several pickup...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Addis Ababa, May 18, 2020 – Ethiopia sees no reason to delay filling its controversial mega-dam despite warnings from Egypt that such a move could destabilise the region, according to a letter from Ethiopia’s foreign minister to the UN Security Council....
Monday, May 18, 2020
Abuja, May 18, 2020 – Nigeria’s government on Monday extended a coronavirus lockdown on the northern region of Kano after it became a hotspot for new infections. The head of the country’s coronavirus taskforce, Boss Mustapha, said the lockdown on...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Warlord Khalifa Haftar and his patrons of the United Arab Emirates, France, Russia and many others don’t seem to be able to take control of the situation in Libya. Billions of dollars already spent and months of a disorganized offensive against Tripoli that...
Monday, May 18, 2020
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Algiers, May 18, 2020 – A leading figure in Algeria’s “Hirak” anti-government protest movement has been released from jail after a court late Sunday cut his prison sentence, one of his lawyers told AFP. Abdelouahab Fersaoui, who heads the civic...
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Mozambique’s army said it has killed 50 suspected jihadists in the northern Cabo Delgado province after another spate of insurgent attacks in the gas-rich region this week. A shadowy Islamist group has terrorised remote communities in the Mozambique’s...
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Abuja, May 16, 2020 – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received samples of a herbal concoction that Madagascar claims can cure people infected with the new coronavirus, his office said. Buhari who collected the potion from President Umaro Sissoco...
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Kano, Nigeria, May 16, 2020 – Six people were killed in ethnic violence in northern Nigeria’s Adamawa state, police said Saturday, but locals put the toll higher. “Six dead bodies have been recovered from the violence which erupted on Friday,”...
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Niamey, May 15, 2020 – Niger’s government on Friday lifted measures to isolate the capital Niamey to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus and also restarted passenger transport services. Niger introduced restrictions, including a night-time curfew and...
Saturday, May 16, 2020
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Algiers, May 15, 2020 – South Korean carmaker Kia will shut down its assembly line in Algeria from Sunday due to supply chain disruptions after authorities imposed a ban on the import of spare parts. “Work will be interrupted from May 17” at the...
Friday, May 15, 2020
Addis Ababa, May 15, 2020 (By Robbie Corey-Boulet) – As the truck travelled south, Yosef Moliso and the other Ethiopian migrants trapped inside its sealed cargo container pounded on the walls for help while struggling to breathe. By the time border guards in...
Friday, May 15, 2020
By Boureima Hama – Amid clucking chickens and bleating sheep, the women of Gadbo, a small village in western Niger, gather around Zalika Issa and offer their condolences. Her nephew, shot dead in front of a crowd near the village well, was one of 20 people...
Friday, May 15, 2020
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Friday, May 15, 2020
Nouakchott, May 15, 2020 – Mauritania has said that it will reinstate restrictions on mosque prayers, after a recent of spike of coronavirus cases in the semi-desert West African state. The government had eased restrictions on such prayers only last week,...
