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...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Unlike their Swedish neighbors, the Norwegian people told France that they will not send more troops to Mali. And the Norwegians are right. The Sahel does not need more troops, it needs a political solution first that will then be worth...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Persistent, logical and even unpopular policies must be implemented to fight the coronavirus. And so North African countries adopted night curfews to limit the spread of Covid-19. At first, the decision sounded OK. But then again what is the...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Tripoli, March 24, 2020 – By Rim Tahar – Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf monarchies, in the time of novel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home. Governments...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Kano, Nigeria, March 24, 2020 – At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by jihadist fighters in the restive northeast, military and security sources said on Tuesday. Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a lorry carrying...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Lagos, March 24, 2020 – Equipment shortages, scarce beds and poorly-paid doctors and nurses: Africa is finding that it has few means to protect itself as a feared coronavirus tsunami looms. Earth’s poorest continent has so far confirmed around 1,800 cases...
Monday, March 23, 2020
March 23, 2020 – Democratic Republic of Congo’s second largest city began a 48-hour lockdown and three more African countries led by Nigeria announced coronavirus fatalities Monday as the disease extended its reach south of the Sahara. More African...
Monday, March 23, 2020
Rabat, March 22, 2020 – Groups of Moroccans went out to pray and to protest in the streets at the weekend, defying orders to stay at home to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Images shared on social networks and broadcast by local media showed people...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020
March 21, 2020 – Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Nearly one billion people confined to homes An estimated 900 million people are now confined to their homes in 35 countries around the world — including 600 million hemmed in by...
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Tripoli, March 21, 2020 – Libya’s UN-recognised government declared a night-time curfew and closure of public spaces starting Sunday to keep the novel coronavirus out of areas it controls, while fighting continued south of the capital. The Tripoli-based...
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Cairo, March 21, 2020 – Egypt’s religious authorities ordered Saturday the closure of all mosques and churches and banned communal prayer gatherings to try and stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. The decision taken by the ministry of religious...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Tunis, March 20, 2020 – Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday declared a nationwide, round-the-clock self-isolation of inhabitants to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country, after an increase in confirmed cases. The start date and...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Algiers, March 20, 2020 – For the first time in over a year, the streets of the Algerian capital were quiet and almost empty on Friday, the day of weekly anti-government rallies. The coronavirus threat put paid to what would have been the 57th straight Friday of...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Lagos, March 20, 2020 – Authorities in Nigerian megacity Lagos said Friday that hospitals had seen cases of chloroquine poisoning after US President Donald Trump touted the drug as a treatment against the new coronavirus. Trump on Thursday said the anti-malarial...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Telecharger gratuirement la version Francaise en PDF | Download free English version in PDF 1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa The Black Death was a that occurred in from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the in human history; as many as 50 million people...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Cairo, March 20, 2020 (By Farid Farid) – In Egypt’s overcrowded and putrid jails, families of prisoners fear a potentially catastrophic coronavirus outbreak and are calling for their imminent release as the rest of the country hunkers down. Egypt has...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Lagos, March 20, 2020 (By Max Delany – Photo: Cape Town, Tim Johnson @timalanjohnson) – African countries led by Nigeria and South Africa have ramped up action against the coronavirus after the continent recorded its first fatality. Nigeria said Thursday...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Cairo, March 19, 2020 – Egypt on Thursday ordered the overnight closure of cafes, restaurants, nightclubs and sporting clubs to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. The decision, issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and carried in the official...
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Ouagadougou, March 18, 2020 (AFP) – Sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday recorded its first COVID-19 death, a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso, as the head of the World Health Organisation urged the continent to “prepare for the worst”. ...
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Rabat, March 18, 2020 – Morocco on Wednesday urged residents to stay home in an effort to contain the novel coronavirus, as a minister warned the country was in “economic hibernation”. The North African country has reported 49 COVID-19 cases,...
