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...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
April 1, 2020 – Tunisia has proposed a UN Security Council resolution calling for “urgent international action” to curb the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, a draft obtained Wednesday by AFP shows. In broad terms, the draft resolution echoes UN...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Algiers, April 1, 2020 – An Algerian court issued heavy prison sentences Wednesday to a powerful former police chief and his family for illicit gains and misappropriation of land, local media reported. Abdelaghani Hamel, a former national security...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Mnilha, Tunisie, March 31, 2020 – Several hundred Tunisians demonstrated in a working class district of the capital Tuesday, demanding government support and protesting a week-old lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately impacted the...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Lagos, March 31, 2020 – Roads in Africa’s largest city Lagos were deserted Tuesday after Nigeria locked down its economic hub and shuttered its capital, in the continent’s latest effort to brake the juggernaut of coronavirus. Businesses were closed,...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Algiers, March 31, 2020 – The 2021 Mediterranean Games have been postponed a year until 2022 as a result of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Algeria’s sports minister Sid Ali Khaldi said Tuesday. The Games were scheduled for Algeria’s second...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Nouakchott, March 31, 2020 – Mauritania has declared its first fatality from coronavirus, state media reported on Tuesday, adding to the growing death toll on the African continent. The victim is a 48-year-old French-Mauritanian dual national who tested positive...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Algiers, March 31, 2020 – A year after the unexpected downfall of Algeria’s longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ailing octogenarian remains holed up in his plush and medically adapted home, with his detractors still demanding justice. Bouteflika...
Monday, March 30, 2020
Cairo, March 29, 2020 – Armoured vehicles in the streets, hundreds arrested, smartphone surveillance — sweeping measures to fight the coronavirus have raised concerns in the Middle East over the erosion of already threatened human rights. As the world...
Monday, March 30, 2020
Algiers, March 29, 2020 – An Algerian journalist was Sunday ordered to be held in pre-trial detention, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and rights organisations said. “Our correspondent in Algeria, Khaled Drareni, has been...
Monday, March 30, 2020
Tripoli, March 29, 2020 – Libya’s justice ministry announced Sunday over 450 prisoners were being freed in a bid to protect against the spread of coronavirus in the wake of the war-torn country’s first declared infections. Judicial officials decided...
