Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The fall of the notorious General Wassini Bouazza, former head of an equally notorious secret police, has done nothing to slow the level of repression suffered by the Algeria people in the hands of the generals in charge. Repression and judicial harassment against...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Tripoli, April 14, 2020 – The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar rained rockets on the capital Tripoli early Tuesday after being ousted by government loyalists from a string of towns to its west. Salvo after salvo of rockets caused loud...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Cairo, April 14, 2020 – An Egyptian policeman was killed and another wounded in a shootout Tuesday with armed militants in Cairo, a security source said. “National security received a tip-off that there was an apartment full of terrorists… An...
Monday, April 13, 2020
One of the most hated Generals in the Algerian military high command, General Bouazza Wassini, has been dismissed and reported to be on the run. Wassini, a man with no experience in intelligence but with a massive ego and ambitions, headed the Internal Security...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Casablanca, Morocco, April 12, 2020 – A small van zips through the streets of Casablanca to deliver food to single mothers, as economic paralysis caused by the coronavirus crisis puts pressure on Morocco’s poor. “We have to be quick,” says...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Tripoli, April 11, 2020 – Water has been cut off to millions of Libyans living in and around the capital Tripoli, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the country said, condemning its use as a “weapon of war”. “More than two million people,...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Rome, April 12, 2020 – Europe’s coast guard agency said Sunday it was looking for a dinghy believed to be carrying dozens of migrants when it went missing after setting sail from Libya for Italy. The UN refugee agency told AFP it was “very...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Rabat, April 13, 2020 – More than 4,300 people were arrested over the weekend in Morocco for breaching emergency rules in place to combat the novel coronavirus, according to official figures. More than half of those detained were taken into police custody. ...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Cairo, April 11, 2020 – Egyptian police arrested a dozen people and fired tear gas in a Nile Delta village Saturday, as a crowd protested the burial of a COVID-19 victim, a security source said. Relatives had taken the body of a retired doctor from her home in...
Monday, April 13, 2020
Algiers, April 12, 2020 (By Amal Belalloufi with Philippe Agret in Tunis) – Algeria faces economic and social turmoil if crude prices continue to collapse, experts have warned, with the oil-dependent country reeling from a year of popular protests, political...
Friday, April 10, 2020
N’Djamena, April 10, 2020 – Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has said his country’s troops, who have been deployed to fight jihadists in the Lake Chad region and the Sahel, will no longer take part in military operations outside national borders. ...
Friday, April 10, 2020
April 10, 2020 – The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a $745 million emergency loan for Tunisia as it continues to roll out an unprecedented number of aid packages to countries battling the coronavirus. “These resources will help address...
Friday, April 10, 2020
Bamako – By Amaury Hauchard with Armel Baily in Ouagadougou: The rise of coronavirus in the war-torn Sahel has sparked sharp fears for the region’s hundreds of thousands of displaced people, often packed inside camps. “If we have coronavirus here, it...
Friday, April 10, 2020
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...
