The diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Mali, long simmering over border security and regional influence, escalated...
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Egypt: Sisi Confronts Worldwide Embassy Uproar
A series of protests and confrontations at Egyptian embassies around the world has sparked international attention in...
Extraction Without Value: Mali’s Role in the Global Lithium Rush
By Mohamed AG Ahmedou, via MondAfrique: Mali’s strategic resources are a formidable source of enrichment for Beijing,...
Unable to govern, North African governments are using repression as their only tool in their toolbox
This week (ending 21 January 2021), Tunisia made the front pages of global media with Tunisians clashing with security...
Tunisia: Rights groups decry mass arrests in Tunisia
Tunisian security forces have arrested at least 1,000 people during six nights of urban unrest between disaffected...
Morocco’s abusive use of preventative detention
Morocco's detention of thousands of suspects awaiting judicial proceedings has sparked a heated debate in the North...
Sahel: Mali police and army repress anti-French army protest
Malian security forces fired tear gas at dozens of demonstrators in the capital Bamako on Wednesday during an...
Libyans want constitutional referendum before planned elections
Libyan envoys at UN-backed talks in Egypt agreed Wednesday to hold a constitutional referendum before planned...
Egypt: Decade after anti-regime protests, General Sisi neutralized opposition, killed democracy
The Muslim Brotherhood's existential fight: can it manage a comeback? The Arab Spring a decade ago gave Egypt's Muslim...
Tunisia: Street riots continue for fourth night in Tunisia
Tunisia braced for further protests Tuesday after hundreds were arrested in four nights of street clashes between riot...
Tunisia: Economic and social despair fuel unrest in Tunisia
Tunisia has seen a new wave of street clashes since the North African country marked the 10th anniversary of its...
Tunisia: Chaos and unrest in several cities, troops deployed
Tunisian authorities said Monday they had arrested more than 600 people and deployed troops after a third consecutive...
Algeria says oil and gas exports down in double-digit rates in 2020
Algeria's oil revenues collapsed in 2020, according to energy ministry figures released Sunday, exacerbating an...
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the seizure of assets of former president Mohamed Morsi and 88 other members of...
Tunisia PM reorganizes government cabinet, dozen ministers affected by reshuffle
Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi announced on Saturday a major cabinet reshuffle affecting 12 ministries, in...
Tunisia: Switzerland may unfreeze dictator’s ill-gotten millions stashed in its banks, the Tunisian people could lose it all
Tunisia could lose millions of dollars stashed in Switzerland by the family of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben...
Covid-19: Despite promising vaccines, worldwide deaths soar as nations face uncertainty
The worldwide death toll from coronavirus approached two million on Friday, with Europe topping 30 million infections...
Sahel: Violence intensifies in Mali as France announces the killing of 15 insurgents
France's armed forces said Friday they had killed around 15 jihadists near Mali's border with Burkina Faso, where an...
Sahel: Foreign forces unable to bring stability to Mali, four UN peacekeepers killed in Bambara Maoude
The death toll from an attack on UN peacekeepers in Mali has risen to four after another soldier died from his wounds,...
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
An Egyptian court Thursday prolonged the detention of two young women, accusing them of human trafficking connected to...
Breaking: Algeria: Terror attack in Tebessa kills five civilians
On 14 January 2020, a homemade bomb blast killed five civilians and wounded three others in eastern Algeria on...
Arab tyrants and their cronies: how Tunisia’s Ben Ali clan ended in utter misery and disgrace
Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like...
Tunisia: Celebrating one decade of protest and a whole lot more to come
By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli: Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success...
Tunisia says it neutralized Al-Qaeda cell plotting “terrorist attacks”
Tunisia has arrested a suspected branch leader of Al-Qaeda in North Africa, along with several others suspected of...
Jailed Algerian pro-democracy activists in hospital amid hunger strike
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger...
Sahel: Reports of 20 villagers killed in Mali region of Bounti
France said on Tuesday it had killed dozens of jihadists in a weekend air strike in central Mali, while several...
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
A supporter of Algeria's Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail Monday for satirical social media...
Algeria: 20 migrants killed in new year accident near Sahara town of Tamanrasset
Twenty people were killed Thursday in Algeria when a vehicle carrying mainly African nationals overturned in the south...
Libya: More evidence of Moscow’s meddling in Libya affairs: Russians operatives freed in Libya
Three Russians and one Ukrainian have been released from captivity in Libya, the head of a controversial Moscow-based...
Sahel: Massacre in west Niger, hundred killed in ‘terror’ attacks
"Terrorists" killed around 100 people in two villages in western Niger, the latest in a string of civilian massacres...
Tunisia: Italian garbage landing in Tunisia forces president to fire environment minister
Tunisia’s environment minister and others arrested over Italian trash scandal Tunisia arrested a dozen people...
Evidence of alleged Russian and French involvement in covert online operations targeting North Africa and Sahel
The government of Chad announced Thursday it would open an inquiry after Facebook said it had closed down fake...
Divided Maghreb countries celebrate one common thing: the Couscous
Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa's Maghreb region and beyond, Wednesday joined the UN list of...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...
Libya: 18 foreign fishermen released from warlord Haftar’s prisons
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed,...
Sahel: Boko Haram raids village in southern Niger, kills 27
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group on Monday claimed responsibility for the weekend attack on a village in...
Libya releases Russian operatives after serving 18 months in prison for vote meddling
An ally of President Vladimir Putin has shelled out nearly $500,000 to two Russian political operatives recently freed...
Algeria: Recovering from Covid, President says he will return from Germany in two-to-three weeks
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday he was recovering from the Covid-19 illness, in his first...
Morocco recognizes Israel in exchange for Trump’s backing on the Western Sahara crisis
First impressions, by Arezki Daoud Today, 10 December 2020, Morocco said it will resume -"with minimum delay-...
Egypt: How both the military and IS terrorize the people of Sinai
Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied...
Algeria: Purge of former regime operatives continues
This week, Algeria experienced a series of court decisions that have accelerated the fight against corruption....
Mozambique: Gas industry fears more instability in Mozambique after new attack in Cabo Delgado
Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a northern Mozambican village in their closest raid yet to a giant gas...