Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Lagos, Jan 28, 2020 – Nigeria’s traffic-choked economic capital Lagos has announced sweeping bans on the motorbike taxis plying its perilous roads set to come in to force from next month. The state government has barred motorbike taxis and motorised...
Monday, January 27, 2020
Washington, Jan 27, 2020 – French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly warned Monday that expected cuts to the Pentagon’s African operations would hamper efforts against jihadist groups, especially in the Sahel region. But US Secretary of Defense Mark...
Monday, January 27, 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020
Tunis, Jan 27, 2020 – Acclaimed Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who chronicled the popular uprising that toppled longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, died on Monday aged 36 after a long illness, her family said. Despite the risks, Ben Mhenni for...
Monday, January 27, 2020
Cairo, Jan 27, 2020 – A top Egyptian court has ruled in favour of banning female academic staff at Cairo University from wearing the Muslim face veil, known as the niqab, lawyer Ahmed Mahran said Monday. The decision taken by the Supreme Administrative Court...
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Washington, Jan 24, 2020 – A 47-year-old Libyan man who was captured by US special forces in Libya and brought to the United States for trial was sentenced to prison on Thursday for his role in the 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi. Mustafa al-Imam, who...
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Tripoli, Jan 25, 2020 – Libya’s oil production has plunged by around three-quarters since forces loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar launched a blockade a week ago, the National Oil Company announced Saturday. The fall, from 1.2 million barrels a...
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Rabat, Jan 25, 2020 – A Moroccan court has sentenced a cleaner to 15 years in prison for the theft of dozens of luxury watches belonging to King Mohammed VI, her lawyer said. The 46-year-old woman worked in a royal household and the judgement was handed down...
Thursday, January 23, 2020
In a note addressed to its clients, advisory firm MEA Risk LLC said the apparent easing in political tension in Algeria is not evidence of a return to normal and the end of the anti-regime protest movement. The appointment of Tebboune as president after a massively...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Cairo, Jan 21, 2020 – A Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said. Ladislav Otakar Skakal, Italy’s former honorary consul...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: (you can also listen the opinion by clicking on the audio player above) | France’s hawks, those who like to project the image of a superpower, are hoping for some miracle tipping point to take place in the Sahel. Their latest idea is to...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Bamako, Jan 22, 2020 – Two Malian soldiers were killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit volatile central Mali. The soldiers were travelling to the town of Douentza, in the central region of...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Tripoli, Jan 22, 2020 – Rocket fire forced the suspension of all flights into and out of Tripoli’s sole functioning airport on Wednesday, only nine days after it reopened following a truce, Libya’s embattled UN-recognised government said. Mitiga...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Ouagadougou, Jan 21, 2020 – Militants killed 36 civilians when they attacked villages in northern Burkina Faso, the government said Tuesday, appealing for local volunteers to bolster its fight against jihadists. A “terrorist group” killed 32...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Bamako, Jan 21, 2020 – Teachers in Mali declared a strike over a pay dispute Tuesday with the government threatening to break the protest by using thousands of already-jobless teachers. Eight teaching unions are demanding that the government honour a pledge made...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Advisory firm MEA Risk LLC released a brief to its client suggesting that the instability in Burkina Faso and neighboring countries will likely escalate going forward. The audio portion of the brief is posted above. The MEA Risk note says Burkina Faso is a complex...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tunis, Jan 20, 2020 – Former finance minister Elyes Fakhfakh was named prime minister-designate by Tunisia’s president late Monday, and will now face the difficult task of forming a cabinet within a month. Newly elected President Kais Saied “on...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
United Nations, United States, Jan 20, 2020 – A United Nations panel said Monday it had no “credible evidence” of Sudanese paramilitaries fighting in conflict-wracked Libya for military strongman Khalifa Haftar as alleged by some media outlets....
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Lagos, Jan 21, 2020 – Nigeria’s anti-graft agency said Tuesday it had filed corruption charges against a former justice minister over a $1.3 billion dollar oil scandal involving international majors Shell and Eni. Mohammed Adoke was arrested last month on...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Niamey, Jan 21, 2020 – Niger’s election commission said Tuesday it had suspended a voter registration drive in a western border region buffeted by jihadist insurgents. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said because of security...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Cairo, Jan 21, 2020 – An Egyptian court has ordered the country’s interior minister to reveal the whereabouts of a missing former parliamentarian believed to be in state custody, his wife told AFP Tuesday. Mostafa al-Naggar, a former opposition lawmaker...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tripoli, Jan 21, 2020 – The United States called Tuesday for an immediate resumption of Libya’s lifeline oil exports that have been blocked by forces loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar since last week. “The suspension of National Oil...
Monday, January 20, 2020
N’Djamena, Jan 20, 2020 – Nine civilians died in western Chad after a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in an area targeted in the past by jihadist group Boko Haram, the army and officials said on Monday. Chad is one of the countries...
Monday, January 20, 2020
Kano, Nigeria, Jan 20, 2020 – Heavily armed jihadists have carried out an “extremely violent” attack on a vital aid facility housing United Nations workers in northeast Nigeria, the UN said Monday. No aid workers were harmed in the assault, but a...
Monday, January 20, 2020
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: All the roads leading to Tripoli are paved with landmines. The Berlin conference was a great initiative, and kudos to Angele Merkel for trying. But I fear it ended with no major progress and clear signs that the violence will not end anytime...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Rabat, Jan 17, 2020 – Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Morocco of holding a dual Belgian-Moroccan citizen in “inhuman” and “abusive solitary detention” for more than three years following his 2009 life sentence on terrorism charges....
Sunday, January 19, 2020
UPDATE: Gunmen known for their support to Khalifa Haftar closed on Sunday morning halted the flow of crude oil by shutting down the pipelines that reach the Zawiya port. The closure came after tribes loyal to Haftar threatened to do so, in protest against the Turkish...
