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...
Monday, March 30, 2020
Lagos, March 30, 2020 (By Celia Lebur) – Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of coronavirus. President...
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Rabat, March 27, 2020 – Morocco’s economy ministry said Friday it had allocated two billion dirhams ($201 million) to bolster medical equipment needed to fight the novel coronavirus, including the purchase of 100,000 testing kits. The money would also be...
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Algiers, March 27, 2020 – An Algerian journalist was arrested on Friday, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said, accusing the country’s government of using the coronavirus crisis to crack down on independent media. Khaled Drareni, who...
Friday, March 27, 2020
Tunis, March 26, 2020 – By Caroline Nelly Perrot: In Tunisia, 150 people — mostly women — have isolated themselves in a factory for a month to make protective gear like masks to help their country’s fight against coronavirus. Due to strict...
Friday, March 27, 2020
N’Djamena, March 27, 2020 (AFP) – Chad has declared two departments near Lake Chad a “war zone”, giving local authorities more powers as they respond to an attack by Boko Haram jihadists that killed nearly 100 soldiers earlier this week. In the...
Friday, March 27, 2020
Listen to the podcast above or read the transcript below. Download MP3 file here. 26 March 2020: By Arezki Daoud: North Africa is bracing for an unprecedented economic contraction, even if the coronavirus crisis were to be contained soon. The fundamentals of economic...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
The Algerian Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform announced on 23 March the use of a drug to treat patients proven to carry the Covid-19 virus. “Based on the experience of some countries, Algeria’s top scientific committee decided to...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Tripoli, March 25, 2020 – Libya has reported its first case of the novel coronavirus, a particular source of concern in the North African country where civil war has badly degraded the public healthcare system. Libya has been mired in chaos since the 2011...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
N’Djamena, March 24, 2020 – Ninety-two Chadian soldiers have been killed in the deadliest attack ever by Bok o Haram jihadists on armed forces in the country, President Idriss Deby Itno said Tuesday. The attack is part of an expanding jihadist campaign in...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
March 25, 2020 – Two soldiers in Mali and three civilians in Burkina Faso died in suspected jihadist attacks in the Sahel on Tuesday, a day after Islamist rebels killed scores of troops in Chad, security sources said. The two soldiers were killed and three...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
March 25, 2020 (By Sophie Pons) – In Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, workers in informal jobs fear not only the novel coronavirus, but how they will survive emergency measures that have cut off their livelihoods. “We are stuck at home, with no work and no...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Bamako, March 25, 2020 – Four countries led by war-ravaged Mali on Wednesday joined the lengthening list of African countries hit by the novel coronavirus as Kenya ordered a curfew and unveiled tax breaks in the fight against the pandemic. Mali, mired in an...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Algiers, March 25, 2020 – An Algerian appeals court has upheld sentences of over ten years in prison for two former prime ministers under ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika following an unprecedented corruption trial, a judicial source said Wednesday. The...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Bamako, March 25, 2020 – Leading Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse went missing in the war-torn centre of the country on Wednesday afternoon, his party said, with no-one is able to contact him since. In a statement released on Wednesday, Cisse’s...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Bamako, March 25, 2020 – Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced a nationwide night-time curfew on Wednesday to limit the spread of coronavirus, but said a parliamentary vote planned for this week will go ahead. In a televised address, Keita said the...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
On 24 March, an Algiers Court canceled the release from prison of political activist Karim Tabbou, shamelessly taking advtange of a freeze in the Hirak movement to punish opposition figures. Journalist Khaled Dradeni and others were also arrested. Tabbou was sentenced...
