Sunday, January 19, 2020
Tunis, Jan 18, 2020 – A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12. The November 24, 2015 suicide bombing in the capital Tunis claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) killed a...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Ouagadougou, Jan 17, 2020 – Six Burkina Faso soldiers were killed Friday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside explosive in a northern province, security sources said, in the latest attack on the country’s armed forces. No group claimed immediate...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Niamey, Jan 19, 2020 – Nearly 7,000 people have fled the region in western Niger where jihadist fighters killed 89 soldiers in a devastating attack earlier this month, the UN refugee agency said. But insecurity in the region is making it difficult for the UNHCR...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Algiers, Jan 19, 2020 – Twelve people were killed and another 46 injured when two buses collided early Sunday in Algeria’s northeast, emergency services said, in the latest tragedy of its kind in the North African country. Emergency teams arrived at...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Berlin, Jan 19, 2020 – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed US “outrage” in a meeting Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Washington, Jan 14, 2020 – An American citizen whose case was raised by top US leaders died Monday after more than six years in custody in Egypt, his representatives said, drawing criticism by Washington of its authoritarian ally. Mustafa Kassem, a New York...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Tunis, Jan 10, 2020 – The Tunisian parliament on Friday rejected the government of Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli after months of negotiations between political parties to fill positions. Jemli, an independent, was nominated by the Islamist inspired...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Geneva, Jan 14, 2020 – Heavy clashes have spurred a growing exodus of migrants from Libya, but nearly 1,000 intercepted at sea have been forced to return to the war-ravaged country since January 1, the UN said Tuesday. Since the start of the year, as many as...
Monday, January 13, 2020
The discussion on Libya that follows was recorded on the 10 of January. The discussion between MEA Risk’s Arezki Daoud and Alessandro Bruno took place a day or two before the two warring parties agreed on a truce. Although there have been some minor breached to the...
Monday, January 13, 2020
Bamako, Jan 10, 2020 – Hundreds of people in Mali on Friday protested against the presence of foreign troops in their country, just days ahead of a summit meant to “clarify” France’s military role in the region. Malian and foreign soldiers have...
Monday, January 13, 2020
In this episode, Arezki Daoud of risk assessment firm MEA Risk LLC and editor of the North Africa Journal, looks at the intersection of business corruption and political corruption in Algeria. Listen on major podcast platforms: Spotify | TuneIn | iTunes | Android |...
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Niamey, Jan 12, 2020 – A jihadist attack on a military camp in western Niger three days ago left 89 soldiers dead, according to a new toll announced by the government on public radio Sunday. “After a thorough search, the toll has been established as 89...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Niamey, Jan 6, 2020 – Niger police have arrested more than 300 Sudanese asylum seekers after accusing them of burning down a UN refugee camp in the north of the country, prosecutors said on Monday. The Niger town of Agadez has become a major transit point for...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Metekel, Ethiopia, Jan 7, 2020 – Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a dependence on flashlights after sundown — Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these struggles and more growing up without electricity in rural...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Bamako, Jan 7, 2020 – A former Malian government official claimed responsibility Tuesday for embarrassing tweets from the president’s account which labelled the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani as a “fuck-up”. Malian...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Cairo, Jan 7, 2020 – Egypt’s flag carrier has suspended flights to the Iraqi capital for three days for security reasons, the civil aviation ministry said Tuesday. The suspension takes effect Wednesday and comes after the killing of Iranian commander...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Monday, January 6, 2020
Bamako, Jan 6, 2020 (AFP) – Five Malian soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bomb attack, a government spokesperson said, in the latest violence to hit the West African country’s volatile central region. The troops were travelling in the region of...
Monday, January 6, 2020
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar announced this morning (Monday, 6 January) his troops entered the coastal city of Sirte and seized Ghardabiya airport and the country’s biggest military base from militias loyal to the Tripoli government. The Misrata forces, which...
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Tripoli, Jan 4, 2020 – At least 28 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in an air strike on a military school in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a ministry spokesman said. “An air raid on the military school of Tripoli killed 28 cadets and injured...
Friday, January 3, 2020
Newly appointed president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced his first government cabinet, which comprises 39 members, including five women, seven Deputy Ministers and four Secretaries of State. The appointments fail to introduce sweeping changes and have disappointed...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Bamako, Dec 30, 2019 – Malian authorities and the United Nations have opened investigations into the alleged disappearance of more than 20 civilians in the war-torn West African country this month, security and government officials said Monday. There are few...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Well-known independence war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa, was released from jail on 2 January 2020. He had been detained for six months for questioning the army’s intentions and criticizing the late army chief Gaid Salah, but was set free even before his trial, as...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Algeria has concluded three contracts for the purchase of Russian fifth-generation stealth fighter Su-57 and the Su-34 and Su-35. Algeria ordered 14 aircraft for each model, thereby strengthening its military cooperation with Russia. With the acquisition of Su-57...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
The Sahel is experiencing utter destabilization. Almost all countries of the region, starting with Mali, then Niger, Chad, more recently Burkina Faso, and to a certain extent northern Nigeria, are falling apart and suffering from a series of factors that conspire to...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Libya has long been a battleground pitting several regional powers against one another. That competition for influence and control of energy resources, is about to get even more intense. While warlord Haftar has been receiving virtually unlimited support from the...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Algiers, Jan 2, 2020 (AFP) – Algeria released on Thursday well-known independence war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa, who was detained last June for allegedly insulting the army, one of his lawyers told AFP. “His trial, which was due to start this (Thursday)...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Tunis, Jan 2, 2020 – Tunisia’s prime minister-designate on Thursday unveiled a proposed government composed of independent figures, after months of negotiations between political parties to fill positions failed. The cabinet — comprised of 28...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 – The director of an Algerian internet radio station has been placed in pre-trial detention after a new charges were pressed against him, a prisoners’ rights group said Friday. Sarbacane chief Abdelkrim Zeghileche was put in pre-trial...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Algiers, Dec 28, 2019 – Algeria’s new president on Saturday named as his prime minister an academic turned political insider who vowed to work to win back people’s trust after months of street protests. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected this month to...
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Cairo, Dec 28, 2019- At least 28 people including textile workers and several Asian tourists were killed Saturday in two separate road crashes in Egypt, official media and other sources said. The deadliest accident occurred when a bus transporting textile workers...
Friday, December 27, 2019
Rabat, Dec 26, 2019 – A Moroccan YouTuber (see photo) was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for “insulting the king” in a video broadcast on social networks, his lawyer said. In a separate case, a Moroccan journalist and activist was charged...
Friday, December 27, 2019
Tripoli, Dec 27, 2019 (By Nawas Al-Darraji) – Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children’s belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital’s outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved...
Friday, December 27, 2019
Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 – Tens of thousands of Algerians demonstrated Friday for the second consecutive week since the contentious election of a new president, insisting on a total revamp of the political establishment. Since February 22, the streets of the...
Monday, December 23, 2019
Paris, Dec 23, 2019 – France’s armed forces said Monday they had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during operations in Mali at the weekend in which it said 40 “terrorists” were killed. On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron...
Friday, December 20, 2019
Bamako, Dec 20, 2019 – Two soldiers and two civilians have been killed and another six people injured in separate roadside-bomb attacks this week in volatile central Mali, local government and security officials said on Friday. The two civilian victims were...
