Friday, April 10, 2020
By Hamza Mekouar: The coronavirus pandemic has put the spotlight on shortcomings in health care in several North African countries, even as governments moved quickly to announce restrictions to limit the spread of the virus. “Our fate is in the hands of a...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Cairo, April 9, 2020 – An Egyptian rights group said Thursday it had filed a lawsuit against authorities demanding that relatives of a jailed journalist be allowed to provide him with medical supplies to protect against coronavirus. The Cairo-based Association...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
N’Djamena, April 9, 2020 – The Chadian army said Thursday it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed. Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Algiers, April 9, 2020 (By Abdellah Cheballah) – From an acute shortage of regional staple couscous to a surge of confidence tricks and counterfeiting, authorities in North Africa have been busy tackling coronavirus challenges that go beyond healthcare. For the...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
United Nations, United States, April 8, 2020 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has begun searching for a new envoy to Libya, diplomatic sources said Wednesday, after the United States refused to endorse the previous candidate. Former Algerian foreign...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Rabat, April 8, 2020 – Morocco on Wednesday announced it has started to draw on a $3-billion credit line from the International Monetary Fund to offset a contraction of its economy because of the coronavirus pandemic. The five-year loan has a grace period of...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Tunis, April 7, 2020 – Tunisia’s interior ministry warned Tuesday that people infected with coronavirus could be prosecuted for manslaughter if they contaminate others by disobeying the health ministry’s instructions. “If someone who is sick...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Cairo, April 8, 2020 (By Farid Farid) – Haggard and dishevelled from the stress of making ends meet, day labourers line up in Cairo for food parcels after losing their jobs to the sharp downturn caused by the coronavirus. Sayed Shaaban, 42, who used to work in a...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Cairo, April 8, 2020 – Egypt will extend a nationwide night-time curfew by a further two weeks in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli said on Wednesday. He told a news conference the measure would be enforced from 8:00...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
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Monday, April 6, 2020
Abuja, April 6, 2020 – Nigeria has asked for $6.9 billion from multilateral lenders including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to tackle the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, its finance minister said Monday. Africa’s most populous...
Monday, April 6, 2020
Madrid, April 6, 2020 – More than 50 migrants forced their way into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla on Monday in a mass crossing of the heavily-protected border in which a police officer was lightly injured, officials said. About 260 migrants...
Monday, April 6, 2020
Algiers, April 6, 2020 – An Algerian court on Monday sentenced another leading figure in the country’s anti-regime protest movement to one year in jail, keeping up a crackdown on activists despite the coronavirus crisis, a support group said. Abdelouahab...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Cairo, April 4, 2020 – Egypt’s main cancer institute has confirmed 15 cases of the novel coronavirus among its medical staff, the facility’s chief said Saturday, sparking fears of exposure among vulnerable patients. “Three doctors and 12 nurses...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Journalist Meriem Chorfi, Editor-in-chief Mouhoub Rafik, and Mohamed Laamari, the Publisher of Algerian newspaper Sawt Al Akher were placed on Thursday, 2 April under judicial control. The move is the last step before they are dragged into a court, most likely the one...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Tunisia’s parliament on Saturday gave the prime minister special powers for two months to allow for the accelerated adoption of measures to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh will be able to issue decrees without referring...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Cairo, April 4, 2020 – Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox church has decided to suspend prayers preceding Easter celebrations later this month as part of efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. The church, which last month ordered the closure of...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Algiers, April 5, 2020 – An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced to eight months in jail a journalist who had provided images of months-long anti-government protests to foreign media, a prisoners’ support group and a non-government organisation said. ...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Algiers, April 4, 2020 – As adversity strikes in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, Algeria has found a helping hand in China, an old friend and the top exporter to Africa’s largest country. An Air Algerie plane arrived in the capital Algiers from...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Rabat, April 5, 2020 – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Sunday pardoned more than 5,600 prisoners and ordered their release in stages to avoid contagion in the country’s overcrowded jails. The justice ministry said the 5,654 detainees that would be...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Mahmud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel government that overthrew dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, died Sunday of the coronavirus, his party said. Jibril, 68, died in Cairo where he had been hospitalised for two weeks, said Khaled al-Mrimi, secretary of the...
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
Maiduguri, Nigeria, April 3, 2020 (By Audu Abba Kurama and Aminu Abubakar in Kano) – Men and women cluster around plastic wash basins hastily set up outside one of northeast Nigeria’s sprawling displaced persons’ camps, lathering their hands with...
Friday, April 3, 2020
Bamako, April 2, 2020 – Turnout for Mali’s parliamentary elections this week was 36 percent, officials said on Thursday, after voters dealt with threats of violence and the coronavirus pandemic. Voters in the war-torn West African country cast their...
Friday, April 3, 2020
Casablanca, Morocco, April 2, 2020 (By Hamza Mekouar) – “Give us our money!”, demands a group of home buyers, standing on land that should by now be finished condos — one of many fictitious projects that together comprise what is described as...
Friday, April 3, 2020
Paris, April 2, 2020 – Four French soldiers deployed in the Sahel region of western Africa in France’s anti-jihadist Barkhane force have tested positive for coronavirus, the army said on Thursday. The infections are the first confirmed by the French army...
Friday, April 3, 2020
Dakar, April 2, 2020 – More than five million people in Africa’s conflict-ravaged Sahel region are facing hunger, the World Food Programme said Thursday, just as the novel coronavirus is spreading into affected countries. In a statement, the WFP called the...
Friday, April 3, 2020
April 2, 2020 – Measures to stem the novel coronavirus pandemic have affected the distribution and publication of newspapers across Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, according to local media and officials. In Tunisia, seven daily newspapers and 20 weeklies have been...
Friday, April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 – Reporters Without Borders has accused Algeria’s government of taking advantage of the coronavirus epidemic to “settle scores” with independent journalists, including those covering long-running anti-government protests. In a...
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Thursday, April 2, 2020
The coronavirus is creating acute shortages of high-consumption foods and commodities. Despite the calls for social distancing, with Algeria ordering a distance of at least one meter between people, there have been mass gatherings of people looking to buy semolina and...
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Warri, Nigeria, April 1, 2020 – Thousands of Nigerians have been left cut off from homes and businesses as states across Africa’s most populous nation have shut their borders to halt the spread of coronavirus. Central Benue on Wednesday became the latest...
